sleazy的意思|sleazy的解释-里氏词典

sleazy ['sleizi]

a. 质地薄的, 没有内容的, 低级庸俗的

sleazy
sleazier, sleaziest

[ adj ]

of cloth; thin and loosely woven

<adj.all>

the coat has a sleazy lining

of very poor quality; flimsy

<adj.all>

morally degraded

<adj.all>

a seedy district

the seamy side of life

sleazy characters hanging around casinos

sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls

the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils

the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal

Sleazy \Slea"zy\ (sl[=e]"z[y^]), 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}.]

In 1950, he beat Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate with an equally sleazy red-baiting campaign.
"Midnight Cowboy" (1969): Perhaps Dustin Hoffman's best role _ the sleazy Ratso.
Apart from a sleazy sex industry and an intriguing golf-course built over the moat of the old walled town, Manila has little to offer the overseas visitor who is there for reasons other than business.
Over the long run, however, sleazy cases will make bad law.
The city's 100 overworked consumer inspectors will have to check the price tags of Picassos on their regular rounds, in between weighing hamburger in supermarkets and catching sleazy electronics merchants selling used VCRs as new.
Eurotrash is the magazine programme presented by Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier which hunts down the sleazy, the vulgar and the batty, not only in France, but across the entire Disunited States Of Europe.
He said Tuesday that the Republicans had smeared the speaker with "a sleazy headline." Frank implied to reporters that he thought the RNC's decision to focus on him was a not-so-subtle effort to portray Foley as gay.
That's $2,400 for a typical family of four _ a huge price to exact from innocent taxpayers to pay for bad management, sleazy financial deals and the government's inability to adequately regulate this industry.
Its sleazy hero is a character you can warm to.
The goddess in Peter Sellars' production of "Tannhauser," which premiered Monday evening at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, lives in a sleazy Las Vegas motel and is attended by nymphs wearing only their bikini tops for the first 90 seconds of Act 1.
Sung to the tune of the late Beatle John Lennon's "Ballad of John and Yoko," the parody goes: "Geez, ya know this is sleazy.
You win a double-quote-score for wryly invoking the original Cape Fear, as when an ageing Peck and Mitchum stroll into cameo roles as sleazy lawyer and Southern sheriff respectively.
When sleazy gamblers including the infamous Arnold Rothstein (Michael Lerner) propose "fixing" the World Series, most team members are vulnerable.
The sleazy female narrator might as well be falling apart at the seams back in Oklahoma.
Enter scheming, sleazy gamblers to capitalize on the discontent. The ball players are approached by a cast of underworld types, and the deal is hatched for the team to allow the Reds to win the series.
Because it's so dark, you get to experience a little of your own darkness." Not so, says critic Tom Shales of The Washington Post. "He's an emotional cheerleader who tries to sway audiences in a very facile and sleazy way.
The crusty editor of the London Record who tells sleazy ace reporter Ted Snape (David Schofield): "Stay with it.
In this case, the victims are nightclub dancers who get sliced and diced by the sleazy joint's weirdo disc jockey.
In legal briefs, lawyers for the Health and Hospitals Corp., which operates city hospitals, have complained about newspapers' "sleazy" reporting on the case, charging that they printed "propaganda" without regard to the truth.
German newspapers have derided the partisan slugfest as "sleazy" and "pointless," especially because East Germans are struggling with mounting joblessness and soaring prices.
People are fed up with sleazy drug users and drug-related crime.
Doesn't it sound sleazy?
I would have felt sleazy if I'd just written a book bragging about everything that worked," he said. "A lot of people said why show all the warts.
He was a regular on the daytime soap "The Edge of Night" before joining "Hill Street Blues" as a sleazy vice cop always in some kind of trouble, usually involving money.
Just the other day 61 per cent of respondents to a Gallup poll in the Daily Telegraph agreed that the Tories 'give the impression of being very sleazy and disreputable'.

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