Meaning & use
Sleaze
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Immoral, sordid, or corrupt behavior or activity, especially involving dishonesty in politics, business, or personal conduct.
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The newspaper ran a long exposé on political sleaze in the city council.
There was an air of sleaze about the whole business deal.
A note on using this word
'Sleaze' is a back-formation from the older adjective 'sleazy,' which originally described flimsy, cheap fabric before it came to mean morally shoddy.
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integrityhonesty
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