Sleazy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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