2016年11月4日 星期五

sleaze, sleazebag/sleazeball



She should admit she's a bad candidate



Hillary Clinton is a creepy lying sleazebag who can’t be trusted
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sleazeball
ˈsliːzbɔːl/
noun
NORTH AMERICANinformal
noun: sleazebag
  1. a disreputable, disgusting, or despicable person (also used as a general term of abuse).
    "they were seen as a bunch of sleazeballs and liars, and voted out"

sleaze

Pronunciation: /sliːz/

noun

[mass noun] British
  • immoral, sordid, and corrupt behaviour or activities:political campaigns that are long on sleaze and short on substance
  • [count noun] informal, chiefly North American a sordid, corrupt, or immoral person: having failed as a leading man, he triumphs as a sleaze

verb

[no object, with adverbial] informal
  • behave in an immoral, corrupt, or sordid way:you’re the last person who has to sleaze around bars

Origin:

1960s: back-formation from sleazy

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