The 91 occurrences of sleazy
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Most hackers regard credit-card theft as "poison" to the underground, a sleazy and immoral effort that, worse yet, is hard to get away with.
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Remarkably, the propaganda war between cops and hackers has always involved angry allegations that the other side is trying to make a sleazy buck.
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Boards have harbored, or have been accused of harboring, all manner of fringe groups, and have abetted, or been accused of abetting, every manner of frowned-upon, sleazy, radical, and criminal activity.
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On the contrary, they should fully understand that state and federal cops were actively patrolling the beat in cyberspace--that they were on the watch everywhere, even in those sleazy and secretive dens of cybernetic vice, the underground boards.
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In cases of this sort, police may well walk out the door with many pounds of sleazy magazines, X-rated videotapes, sex toys, gambling equipment, baggies of marijuana.... Of course, if something truly horrendous is discovered by the raiders, there will be arrests and prosecutions.
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If you had been standing behind her chair you would have seen, emerging miraculously from the white surface under Fanny's pencil, a thin, undersized little figure in sleazy black and white, whose face, under the cheap hat, was upturned and rapturous.
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And the little girl went marching by, in her cheap and crooked shoes, and her short and sleazy skirt, with the banner tugging, tugging in the breeze.
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It was a black dress, near-princess in style, very tight as to fit, very short as to skirt, very sleazy as to material.
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In the shallow dark window-space heaps of sleazy sateens, badly woven galateas, canvas shoes designed for women with bulging ankles, steel and red glass buttons upon cards with broken edges, a cottony blanket, a granite-ware frying-pan reposing on a sun-faded crepe blouse.
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She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."
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Father Homer, thee, Thee also I forgive thy sandy wastes Of prose and catalogue, thy drear harangues That tease the patience of the centuries, Thy sleazy scrap of story, -- but a rogue's Rape of a light-o'-love, -- too soiled a patch To broider with the gods.
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See Sleazy .
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), n. Quality of being sleazy.
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Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
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Politics were from an early period repulsive to me, and, after my first sight of Washington in its shabby, sleazy, dirty, unkempt condition under the old slave oligarchy, political life became absolutely repugnant to my tastes and desires.
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It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, brothels, and inns.
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It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, brothels, and inns.
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He encountered a sleazy justicary who stitched up shady deals in the back rooms of cafés.
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But I'd rather stick to this old sleazy mou'nin' for Tom"--she gave a dramatic pluck at her faded black skirt--"than flaunt round in white muslins and China silks at ten dollars a yard, paid for by his murderer."
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We had seen Tish go through a cold winter clad in a succession of sleazy silk kimonos instead of her flannel dressing-gown; terrible kimonos--green and yellow and red and pink, that looked like fruit salads and were just as heating.
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Rilla got the clothes-the cheap, sleazy garments the poor mother had made ready as best she could.
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Old Colonel Purviance, of the Chesapeake Club, for one--a big- paunched man who always wore, summer and winter, a reasonably white waistcoat and a sleazy necktie; swore in a loud voice and dropped his g's when he talked.
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In a humiliating - and well-publicized defeat - Yeltsin failed to sack the spectacularly sleazy and incompetent governor of Primorsky krai, Yevgeni Nazdratenko (later "persuaded" by Putin to resign his position and chair the State Fisheries Committee instead).
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A big yellow butterfly she was indeed, with the sleazy, clinging, white draperies wound around her slender form, then the wings of golden maline pinioned on either softly rounded shoulder.
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Eddring tore open the sleazy gray envelope and read the message.
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It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, and brothels.
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He considered that protection encouraged sleazy and fraudulent work, and placed honest manufacturers at a disadvantage; though he obtained these ideas rather from reading English magazines than from any serious study of his own.
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... Father Homer, thee, Thee also I forgive thy sandy wastes Of prose and catalogue,[16] thy drear harangues That tease the patience of the centuries, Thy sleazy scrap of story,--but a rogue's Rape of a light-o'-love,[17]--too soiled a patch To broider with the gods.
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For careless, sleazy, or fraudulent work he had no patience.
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She looks in longingly, hugging her shivering shoulders under her sleazy shawl, till a policeman bids her 'move on.'
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The feathers may be emptied in barrels, washed in soap-suds, and rinsed; then spread in an unoccupied room and dried, or put in bags made of thin sleazy cloth, and kept in the sun until dry.
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Look at that dress you've got on,--a good thick thibet, an' mine's a cheap, sleazy alpaca they palmed off on me because they knew my eyesight ain't what it was once.
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When woman would be sleazy, petticoat manufacturers went overnight into an oblivion from which there might or might not be returning.
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On the show-room side of the door, painted mauve within and not without, _mannequins_, so pink finger-tipped, so tilted of instep, and so bred in the thrust to the silhouette, trailed these sleazy products of thick ringers across mauve-colored carpet and before the appraising eyes of twenty states.
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Not for her were the flaring, coarse, scant garments whose lack of seemliness was supposed to be atoned for by a profusion of cheap, sleazy trimming.
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Their sleazy lives had wanted color and substance, and they found it in a cant of patriotism, in illuminating their windows after slaughter, in dressing their tables with helmets of sugar, (after the fashion of the White House,)--delicate _souvenirs de la guerre!_ But Theodora and these women had seen their door-posts slopped with blood,--that made a difference.
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Confraternities of every order were arriving in stately processions, their banners borne before them by gondoliers gaudy and awkward in sleazy white tunics, with brilliant cotton sashes--habiliments which possessed a singular power of relieving these sun-browned sons of the lagoon of every vestige of their native grace.
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The tall man took his place, lay down, and drew together the unclean curtains of sleazy stuff provided to afford privacy to shrinking souls.
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That he can never know the rapture of donning a becoming spring bonnet, nor the pleasure of possessing "real lace" things, nor the sensuous charm of being enwrapped in caressing furs, or sleazy, silken garments as exquisite in color and texture as beautiful, fresh flowers, only delicate consideration for his feelings constrains me from expatiating upon at length.
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These winter garments appear to be made of a mixture of cotton and wool, very coarse and _sleazy_.
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These winter garments appear to be made of a mixture of cotton and wool, very coarse and _sleazy_.
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It's sleazy, isn't it?"
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This way she could dress herself in peace and quickly abscond from sleazy predilections and proclivities that might have made up the baser components of oneOs nature but were puny in defining herself.
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light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
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sleazy, a. flimsy, thin, gauzy.
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thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny, lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact; dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty; inadequate, insufficient, superficial.
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weak, a. feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly, fragile, delicate, invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, unguarded, unprotected, exposed; frail, pliant, tender; peccable, fallible, errable, erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective; illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vacillating, irresolute, wavering, unstable; diluted, thin, insipid, vapid; slight, gauzy, sleazy, flimsy, brittle, fragile; unsound, unsubstantial, defective, unsafe, rickety.
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It contained sleazy docks, prisons, gaming houses, and brothels.
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The rest that they bring is silks, very poor and sleazy, except some silk which is brought in raw or spun into thread.
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Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
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Seams all busted, sleazy cloth wore through.
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Shortly after his return in infirm old age to his native land, a little narrative of his adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, appeared among the peddlers, written, probably, not by himself, but taken down from his lips by another.
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The press in the corner still held a few clothes, threadbare and sleazy, and in the desk were some dry letters and a Business Book--at least, that's how it was marked--with lists of names, each having an occupation or task set down opposite it, I suppose the names of long-dead slaves.
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Now I am mortally afraid of rats and mice, and what I had touched had the sleazy feel of frayed silk.
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Every copy is made of less worthy material than its model, of gaudier colors, with cheaper trimmings, until we have the pitiful spectacle of girls who earn barely enough to keep body and soul together spending their money for garments neither suitable nor durable--sleazy, shabby after a single wearing, short-lived--yet for a few ephemeral minutes "up to date."
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Every flying rod of the sleazy road he knew was a peril.
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Then I knew that two such men, who were seamen accustomed to using their hands, quick on their feet and seeing well in the dark, as we all do, could pitch the officer over the tower of San Piero, if they chose, with all his sleazy crew of lubberly, dressed-up boobies, armed with overgrown boat-hooks.
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Thomas Aquino Rusk liked to play at being a sleazy Broadway producer, his "plays" the eye-catching demonstrations he and his band of merry shit-disturbers hijacked.
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"Burlesque got sleazy in the 1940s with bumps and grinds and tassel-twirlers, but that's not what we're selling.
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If his gaze slipped down to the sleazy, badly fashioned dress, the eyes brought him up with a round turn, slapped him, and reduced him to obedience.
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While the sleazy structures of the lymphatic temperament are favorable to the functions of transudation, exhalation, and mutual diffusion of liquids, the sanguine, as its name indicates, is adapted to promote the circulation of the blood, to favor nutrition and reproduction.
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Profuse menstruation is very prone to occur in young women of a lymphatic temperament, whose organs are sleazy in texture.
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Of course, the acute, sleazy dogs whom he questioned kept back everything that was essential, and filled their victim's mind with concoctions which amused professional blackguards for a month.
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He was thin, the fine bones of his face tight under the pallid skin, his ribs showing even through the sleazy fabric of the threadbare tunic with its house seal.
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I can't bear those sleazy stuffs that come from India.
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And these answers that the boys have wrought out with such pains, on innumerable pads of sleazy white paper, how little they tell me of what the fellows really know and feel!
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The pencil-thin fire-spouter and the sleazy-looking "restrainer" had a sufficiently unfamiliar air to go with Maulbow's story; but as far as Gefty knew, either of them could have been manufactured in the Hub.
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Finally he gave them up too, and one morning came to work wearing a flimsy, sleazy, negligee shirt.
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She sat up on the side of the bed, dangling her feet, and subconsciously the major took in fuller details of her attire--the cheap white slippers with rickety, worn-down high heels; the sleazy stockings; the over-decorated skirt of shabby blue cloth; the soiled and rumpled waist of coarse lace, gaping away from the scrawny neck, where the fastenings had pulled awry.
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Next to her was an old woman in a sleazy black dress with a turban-like hat all swathed with a long black veil hemmed with black.
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Joe watched his narrow, bent shoulders under the sleazy shirt.
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The crimson, sleazy shirtwaist rose and fell.
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Back in the old days I used to invade those mirrored and carpeted _salons_ where a trained and deferential saleswoman would slip sleazy and satin-lined moleskin coats over my arms and adjust baby-bear and otter and ermine and Hudson-seal next to my skin.
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If too large, on the other hand, the work is apt to be sleazy.
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1. deposition 2. inertia 3. levying 4. marrowfat 5. orgies 6. risible 7. condescension 8. sleazy 9. tease 10.
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It was brief, occupying only about four pages of the small, sleazy note paper that we bought in those days of the sutlers.
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The only garment I had on was a white, sleazy sort of cotton bed-gown, which they garbed us all in when we were taken to the hospital; and this chap's eyes, as he stared at me, looked as if they would pop out of his head.
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Along the Rue Catinat in the evenings saunters a picturesque and colorful procession--haggard, slovenly officers of the _troupes coloniales_ and of the Foreign Legion, the rows of parti-colored ribbons on their breasts telling of service in little wars in the world's forgotten corners; dreary, white-faced Government employees, their cheeks gaunt from fever, their eyes bloodshot from heavy drinking; sun-bronzed, swaggering, loud-voiced rubber planters in riding breeches and double Terais, down from their plantations in the far interior for a periodic spree; women gowned in the height of Paris fashion, but with too pink cheeks and too red lips and too ready smiles for strangers, equally at home on the Bund of Shanghai or the boulevards of Paris; shaven-headed Hindu money-lenders from British India, the lengths of cotton sheeting which form their only garments revealing bodies as hairy and repulsive as those of apes; barefooted Annamite tirailleurs in uniforms of faded khaki, their great round hats of woven straw tipped with brass spikes like those on German helmets; slender Chinese women, tripping by on tiny, thick-soled shoes in pajama-like coats and trousers of clinging, sleazy silk; naked _pousse-pousse_ coolies, streaming with sweat, graceful as the bronzes in a museum; friars of the religious orders in shovel-hats and linen robes; sailors of the fleet and of the merchant vessels in the harbor, swaggering along with the roll of the sea in their gait; Armenian peddlers with piles of rugs and embroideries slung across their shoulders; Arabs, Indians, Malays, Cambodians, Laos, Siamese, Burmese, Chinese, world without end, Amen.
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I want to see the little Annamite women in their sleazy silken garments and the boisterous, swaggering _legionnaires_ in their white helmets.
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He looked at her, she standing there, a stooped and meager shape in her scant, ill-fitting gown of sleazy black, yet seeming to him an embodiment of all the beatitudes and all the beauties of this mortal world.
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It did not help that the legislators were largely both ignorant and distrustful of the technology of the Internet--which was, at the time, thought to be dominated by foreign hackers, suicidal cults, pirates, and sleazy pornographers.
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In like manner, I have heard of a prayer preferred by a somewhat simple New Englander, who was overheard offering his petition behind a clump of bushes in a field: "O Lord, I want a new coat--good cloth--none of your coarse, flimsy, slimsy, sleazy kind of stuff, but a good piece of thick, warm, comfortable broadcloth--such as Bill Hale wears."
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It is what we should call a _sleazy_ material to begin with.
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This pretense, this sleazy imitation of your old room is wrong.
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Use fine screen wire over all openings, and make windows very small, with coarse, sleazy crash in the sash rather than glass inside the screens.
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Help me--you sleazy fashionable!"
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SLAZY Sla"zy, a. Defn: See Sleazy.
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SLEAZINESS Slea"zi*ness, n. Defn: Quality of being sleazy.
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SLEAZY Slea"zy, a. Etym: [Cf.
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Defn: Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
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She pulled at the strings which held a blue sunbonnet dangling between her narrow shoulder-blades, regarded the sleazy headgear ruefully, and then spying the cap in the ditch, she deposited her burden gently upon the grass once more and scrambled over to investigate her find.