How to Use sleazy in a Sentence

sleazy

adjective
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  • And this is the guy who did kind of sleazy stuff to stop him.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Of course there are others that are just plain sleazy and creepy.
    — Health.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Then came a brief stint at a sleazy burger joint off Union Square.
    — Carmel Breathnach, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • For some, selling may feel sleazy, icky or just plain gross.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Get to the expensive restaurant, hatch the sleazy plot to to undo.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Daily Beast’s portrait of Gaetz as a man-about-town is less rakish than sleazy.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • This is a sleazy, wretched racket, yet the film is nearly as blithe about it as Shawn is.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • Billie Jean asks the bully’s dad, a sleazy surf shop owner, to pay the $608 repair bill.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • That’s until Tse beats up a customer and almost kills one of the sleazy pimps working for Dai Mah.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Think of it as a politician hitting the campaign trail to press the flesh in search of cash and support, only not quite as sleazy.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Everyone’s favorite sleazy lawyer with a heart of gold is back.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Sure, the flare doesn’t quite have the full anachronistic sleazy-chic of the bell bottom, but a tinge of retro seediness goes a long way.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Novak started as a writer on the sitcom but stepped in front of the camera as the sleazy office temp.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Elwes will join the cast as Mayor Kline, who is described as handsome, slick and sleazy.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • Ben Schreckinger pieces together the whole weird, sleazy weekend to figure out: What the hell happened in Tahoe?
    — Ben Schreckinger, GQ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • That anything includes writing and reading sleazy page-turners for the fun of it.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge against a psychotic drug lord named Viking and his sleazy henchmen.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Lisa and John Malkovich as the ladies’ sleazy, opportunistic landlord.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Evan White is also very good as Julia’s sleazy fiancé Glen.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • Madison Street west of the Kennedy was a maleficent mile of burlesques, flop houses and sleazy taverns.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Meanwhile for the music, Clark dug into 1970s New York scenes, leaning into funk and soul with a sleazy rock ‘n roll twist.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The changes are worthwhile, but do not finish the job of reforming Brazil’s sleazy politics.
    — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
  • His party was gripped by QAnon, which holds at the center of its belief system the idea that the Democratic elite are sleazy and corrupt.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • And the tacky-to-the-touch aesthetic is deliberate, and not without its trashy, sleazy pleasures.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Nixon appointed Arthur Burns to run the Fed during his first term and then sought to control Fed policy through both overt and sleazy means.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • Peeved in Portsmouth Dear Peeved: This proud peacock wasted no time putting his sleazy colors on full display -- and thank goodness.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 May 2023
  • Mayor Kline is a handsome, slick, and sleazy '80s politician who's more concerned with his own image than with the citizens of Hawkins.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Roth has proved by the mastery and integrity of his writing the difference between the erotic and the pornographic, in our sleazy era of the latter.
    — Tina Jordan and Susan Ellingwood, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • Here’s hoping the plaintiffs refuse to settle so that the voting public can hear every detail of what cheap, sleazy people these are.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Racist, homophobic and downright sleazy, the magazine changed the way the public thought about celebrities.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018

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