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sleazy adj.质地薄的；肮脏的；低廉的；低劣的 (1) 他们把我带到一个后街的肮脏的旅馆。(2) 她那低级的闲话令人倒胃口。 Sleazy originally meant flimsy, but nowadays it’s only used to describe morally degraded people or places. Usually it refers to sexual behavior, but it is often associated with people trying to swindle others as well. It’s not as bad as perverse or criminal, which suggest that a line has been crossed. But sleazy people make you feel uncomfortable, for sure.

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英 ['sliːzi] 美 ['sliːzi] (1) They took me to a sleazy back-street hotel.(2) Her sleazy gossip was very off-putting. Something that is sleazy is low and nasty. It’s a perfect word to describe characters like the sleazy door-to-door con men who cheat old ladies into selling them their jewelry at a deep discount. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]肮脏的；破落失修的；不体面的 If you describe a place as sleazy, you dislike it because it looks dirty and badly cared for, and not respectable.   [disapproval]  [INFORMAL 非正式]...sleazy bars.破破烂烂的酒吧...sleazy cinemas in London's Soho...伦敦Soho区破落的电影院Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty.工作实际上在楼下没有窗户的地下室里完成，又脏又累。2[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]低级的；低俗的 If you describe something or someone as sleazy, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable and are rather disgusting.   [disapproval]  [INFORMAL 非正式]...sex shops and sleazy magazines.性用品商店和粗俗低级的杂志...a sleazy fellow...下流的家伙The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy.这些指控让政府的行为显得越发不光彩了。

英语单词	sleazy
英美音标	英 ['sliːzi] 美 ['sliːzi]
中文释义	adj.质地薄的；肮脏的；低廉的；低劣的
英语例句	(1) They took me to a sleazy back-street hotel. (2) Her sleazy gossip was very off-putting.
中文例句	(1) 他们把我带到一个后街的肮脏的旅馆。 (2) 她那低级的闲话令人倒胃口。
vocabulary简明	Something that is sleazy is low and nasty. It’s a perfect word to describe characters like the sleazy door-to-door con men who cheat old ladies into selling them their jewelry at a deep discount.
vocabulary扩展	Sleazy originally meant flimsy, but nowadays it’s only used to describe morally degraded people or places. Usually it refers to sexual behavior, but it is often associated with people trying to swindle others as well. It’s not as bad as perverse or criminal, which suggest that a line has been crossed. But sleazy people make you feel uncomfortable, for sure.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]肮脏的；破落失修的；不体面的 If you describe a place as sleazy, you dislike it because it looks dirty and badly cared for, and not respectable. [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式] ...sleazy bars. 破破烂烂的酒吧 ...sleazy cinemas in London's Soho... 伦敦Soho区破落的电影院 Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty. 工作实际上在楼下没有窗户的地下室里完成，又脏又累。 2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]低级的；低俗的 If you describe something or someone as sleazy, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable and are rather disgusting. [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式] ...sex shops and sleazy magazines. 性用品商店和粗俗低级的杂志 ...a sleazy fellow... 下流的家伙 The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy. 这些指控让政府的行为显得越发不光彩了。

Sleazy Describe It’s People Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 [Disapproval [Informal