skeezy

adjective

skee·​zy ˈskē-zē 

skeezier; skeeziest

slang

: morally or physically disgusting or repulsive : skeevy, sleazy

In Sleeping With Other Friends, Matthew has slicked hair parted to the side with a thin mustache. He looks like a skeezy guy that you wouldn't trust.

—Dino-Ray Ramos

We're supposed to cheer when Johnny flouts liquor laws and gets away with serving underage girls. Instead it just feels skeezy.

—Devan Coggan

I was so disgusted that I looked up his girlfriend on a social-networking site and sent her a copy of the conversation, thinking that she had a right to see how skeezy he really was.

—Cosmopolitan

It seemed very clean—except, of course, the bathrooms, which seem to be skeezy almost everywhere.

—Beth Whitehouse

Examples of skeezy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Elon Musk had wanted to recruit Rudy Giuliani in the early 2000s to help turn PayPal into a bank, but the outgoing New York mayor was too skeezy even for Musk, according to a new biography of the Tesla founder. —Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

phonesthemic word, perhaps blending skeevy and sleazy

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for skeezy

• breezy
• cheesy
• easy
• queasy
• sleazy
• wheezy
• marchese
• speakeasy
• uneasy