sleaze
shabby business operations
TRANSLATION
Schäbigkeit
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"French elite hit by SLEAZE claims -- The disgraced French former Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, has accused ministers in the current government of involvement in a corruption scandal surrounding the former state-owned oil giant, Elf."
(BBC News - 18 June 2001)
(BBC News - 18 June 2001)
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The relatively recent word "sleaze" circa 1950 is a "back formation" from the older word sleazy. It means tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
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 b : SQUALID, DILAPIDATED
Synonyms for sleazy:
flimsy, shabby, shoddy, squalid, dilapidated, cheap, tacky
sleazy bars
sleazy area
sleazy tabloids (newspapers)
Note:
sleaze campaign = moralisch fragwürdige, offensive Kampagne
The relatively recent word "sleaze" circa 1950 is a "back formation" from the older word sleazy. It means tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
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
Synonyms for sleazy:
flimsy, shabby, shoddy, squalid, dilapidated, cheap, tacky
sleazy bars
sleazy area
sleazy tabloids (newspapers)
Note:
sleaze campaign = moralisch fragwürdige, offensive Kampagne
