About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- sleazy
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

sleazy

 : 
Adjective
 : 
slea=zy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sleazy has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sleazya. [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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sleazy, adj. (sleazier, sleaziest)
1 squalid, tawdry.
2 slatternly.
3 (of textiles etc.) flimsy.

Derivative
sleazily adv. sleaziness n.
Etymology
17th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

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
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion