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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sleazy \slea"zy\ sl=e"zy^, 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
see also:
slazy 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
bum cheap cheesy chintzy crummy punk 
tinny seamy seedy sordid squalid 
sleaziest sleazier 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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





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