Sleazy \Slea"zy\ (sl[=e]"z[y^]), a. [Cf. G. schleissig worn out,
threadbare, from schleissen to slit, split, decay, or E.
leasy.]
Lacking firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as,
sleazy silk or muslin. [Spelt also slazy.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sleazy
adj 1: of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy
lining"
2: of very poor quality [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy,
crummy, punk, tinny]
3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly;
"the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very
nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid]
[also: sleaziest, sleazier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleazy":
base, breakable, brittle, broken-down, cheap, cheap-jack, cheesy,
chintzy, cobwebby, common, contemptible, crappy, crumbly, crummy,
dainty, delicate, delicately weak, dilapidated, dingy, dirty,
disreputable, down-at-heel, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, flimsy,
floppy, fragile, frail, frangible, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery,
insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, light, lightweight, low-class,
low-grade, mean, namby-pamby, paltry, papery, pasteboardy, poor,
puny, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, shabby, shattery,
shoddy, sissified, slight, slipshod, slummy, sordid, squalid,
tacky, tatty, tawdry, tenuous, thin, trashy, unsubstantial, wispy,
womanish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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