sleazebag

slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sleazebag Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy. Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025 Ellen Levitt Says who? Brooklyn: Donald Trump has called Michael Cohen a sleazebag. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024 Yes, its broad caper plot is largely nonsensical, but Bruce Campbell as such an impeccable sleazebag is at least one saving grace. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2022 Staggering drunkenly into the office one night with an entourage of partying sleazebags, Ford gropes Ashley for all to see and makes lewd comments. John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020 Cillian Murphy plays an Irish gun buyer with a cause; Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and Babou Ceesay are among the idiosyncratic sleazebags doing the selling. Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleazebag
Noun
  • Just when things are looking up — a haughty British couple leaves this daughter of Oxfordshire a handsome tip — the dinner pervert turns up for his morning coffee.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Outside the courthouse on Friday, Toner’s lawyer made a brief statement about his pervert client.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Seek legal advice and detach emotionally from this creep.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Phillips is far from a seedy creep who draws the ire of everyone around him.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But my soft palate being a lazy jerk is not the real culprit here.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2025
  • But this Ron Howard was an alternate universe version of Ron Howard, who instead of being notoriously nice, is sort of a jerk.
    Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But he’s met with a surprise: Lester’s wife has switched attorneys and is now represented by slimeball Stuart of all people.
    Ayan Artan, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Daisy's career begins when she gets discovered by Hank Allen, who would go on to briefly become her manager and slimeball boyfriend.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • In the ‘30s and ‘40s, there were all these clowns trying to sell things, and then there was Krinkles the Clown trying to sell cereal [in the ‘50s].
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
  • Matthew Davies, 41, was taken into custody on suspicion of assaulting a man with a glass bottle while dressed up as a clown on Oct. 31, 2018, according to a news release issued by the department.
    Vincent Moleski, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Odell and his potential heirs, callous Belinda (Téa Leoni) and sleazeball Shepard (scene-stealer Will Poulter), take the discovery of a new species to unethical extremes.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The show has a real bounty of powerful sleazeballs, which is both part of the social critique and a storytelling problem.
    Vulture, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • This included four search dogs, three doctors, a diving team and a water extraction contingent, Tunisia’s state news agency TAP reported.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • These jokers are still just hanging out and having the same old drinking parties.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 May 2025
  • Thousands of the jihadist jokers had either their private parts or their ears blown off when the Zionist entity set them off last year.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Sleazebag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleazebag. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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