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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLEA'ZY, SLEE'ZY, a. [probably from the root of loose.] Thin; flimsy; wanting firmness of texture or substance; as sleezy silk or muslin.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"
2: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, 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, sleazy, sordid, squalid]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sleazier; -est) Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1645 1. a. lacking firmness of texture ; flimsy b. carelessly made of inferior materials ; shoddy 2. a. marked by low character or quality <sleazy tabloids> b. squalid, dilapidated <sleazy bars> • sleazily adverb • sleaziness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sleazier, sleaziest) 1 squalid, tawdry. 2 slatternly. 3 (of textiles etc.) flimsy. Derivatives: sleazily adv. sleaziness n. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sleazy Slea"zy, a. [Cf. G. schleissig worn out, threadbare, from schleissen to slit, split, decay, or E. leasy.] Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin. [Spelt also slazy.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sleazier, sleaziest) 1. If you describe a place as sleazy, you dislike it because it looks dirty and badly cared for, and not respectable. (INFORMAL) ...sleazy bars. ADJ [disapproval] 2. If you describe something or someone as sleazy, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable and are rather disgusting. (INFORMAL) The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Thin, flimsy, weak, poor.

Moby Thesaurus

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