sleazy

• adj.質感が薄い；汚い；卑しく下品；ぼろぼろ

子音クラスターsl-から、slime, slush, mud, slop, slosh, slough, sludgeと比較される。

sleazy (adj.)

1640s, "downy, fuzzy," later "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1660s), of unknown origin; one theory is that it is a corruption of Silesia, the German region, where thin linen or cotton fabric was made for export. Silesia in reference to cloth is attested in English from 1670s; and sleazy as an abbreviated form is attested from 1670), but OED is against this. Sense of "sordid" is from 1941. Related: Sleazily; sleaziness.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleazy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web. [Emerson, "The Conduct of Life," 1860]

1. The accusations are Making the government 's conduct appear increasingly sleazy .

これらの告発は政府の行為をますます不名誉にした。

2.They took me to a sleazy back-street hotel.

彼らは私を裏通りの汚いホテルに連れて行った。

3.Downstairs in the windowless basement，where the real work is done，it is sleazy and sweaty.

仕事は実際に階下の窓のない地下室で行われ、汚れて疲れている。

4.Her sleazy gossip was very off-putting.

彼女の低級なゴシップにはうんざりした。

5.He looks like a bum who 's been drowning his sorrows in sleazy dives.

彼は遊び人のように見えて、一日中汚い下等のバーに浸かって酒を借りて憂さを晴らしている。