Adjective, : sleazy politics. ,a sleazy hotel. ,a sleazy dress; a sleazy excuse. From Dictionary.com.
Sean Parker -- who is sleazily portrayed by Justin Timberlake in. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Parker Denies Threatening Doorkeeper At New York Club] Reference
With Oily Duncan too very likely sailed off sleazily into the sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Word Tennis: Cameron Waving Cockily or Drowning?] Reference
That someone from the opposing side might behave as sleazily toward you?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Kudlow: ‘The Chamber Of Commerce Is A Very Negative Force,’ ‘Absolutely Negative And Absolutely Wrong’] Reference
Bob Ney, the “Mayor of D.C.” was so sleazily tainted that he quit congress too. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Blogo-humiliation.] Reference
You sleazily hammered and slandered Sarah Palin for months on the flimsiest of issues. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Biden help Obama? Lefts Says Yes; Right Says No:] Reference
Some quothes -- picture every line spoken sleazily with more than just a cocked eyebrow: My fian... my fiancee!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
I reflected that I had never heard the act of adultery described more sleazily than in a law court, beneath the Lion and the Uni - corn. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Who would ever have thought that bottom-dwelling conservative hack shop Regnery Publishing was sleazily ripping off its own sleazy authors?. From Wordnik.com. [2007 November 07 « Lean Left] Reference
Sean Parker -- who is sleazily portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network" -- denies he yelled at the doorkeeper at a downtown club. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Parker Denies Threatening Doorkeeper At New York Club] Reference
Instead of pursuing their goal through the normal public process they chose to sleazily subvert the process and seek to end comm'l fishing through the MA legislative process. From Wordnik.com. [Should MA Make Striped Bass A Protected Game Fish?] Reference
Sean Parker -- who is sleazily portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network" -- denies he yelled at the doorkeeper at a downtown club that he would "erase" her from Facebook. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Parker Denies Threatening Doorkeeper At New York Club] Reference
Perhaps if this film has any technical failing, it would be that it looks a little too gritty and sleazily made, as if it was shot on the sly to avoid parents and the police, lighting and angles be damned. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Ape (1997)] Reference
Of course, if Brown had not run away from debate on Lisbon, maybe these problems would have been anticipated, or at least argued through in Parliamentary/public debate ... as ever being sleazily authoritarian bites back in the end. From Wordnik.com. [Labour Totalitarianism moves on apace] Reference
True, he ran a very centrist, DLC-type campaign, and he did ultimately lose, but the Republicans played the race card against him as sleazily and as hard as they could, and he's a product of one of the most famous black political machines in the entire South. From Wordnik.com. [The Race Card: A South Carolina Post-Mortem] Reference
Long-time readers of hecklerspray should cast their mind back to almost exactly one year ago when we interviewed Marion Benoist and Fred De Fred from Sheffield/ France group The Lovers, a group so sleazily kitsch that we couldn't help falling in love with them. From Wordnik.com. [CD Review – Sparks, Hello Young Lovers] Reference
I'm no expert but it seems it's first of all about acting sensually but not sleazily, about looking after yourself physically and perhaps dressing nicely but far more importantly - walking into any interpersonal situation with a mindset of giving to that other person. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The obviously were pleased that it happened, and sleazily tried to downplay their role in distributing stolen information by insisting it's a protected whistleblower doing it BTW this is why I doubt it's someone inside CRU, such insistence by friends would make any such person nervous, I should think. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Had a Little List] Reference
Obama's not a President of the United States, he has absolutely no reason to go to Germany, which I am confident he could not find on a globe, yet his sleazily thinks he can use another country's monument, and two American presidents who managed the steely will to face down the USSR, in his own interest. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Mufin Musicfinder Base - commercial software sleazily pretends to be freeware and fails. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia] Reference
Was I immature enough to point at him whilst thrusting my hips and winking sleazily when I heard his name?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hot Librarian] Reference
Less sleazily this is part of advertising your science - if someone is reading one paper, might they not be interested in another one?. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
This iteration was a nationalist outfit that proclaimed Canadian superiority and virtue in opposition to the sleazily American WWE, much to the dismay of the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Deadspin] Reference
In order to acquire additional government money for that new stadium, the Yankees are engaging in the most American of methods: sleazily influencing politicians to change the law in their favor. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Gyapong is either direly dull-witted or sleazily disingenuous (or more likely some nefarious combination of the two) and just trying to whip up a little more outrage among the cerebrally-deprived. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
He also sleazily talks about turning in applications in the spring and the government taking too long to get to them, but, in fact, these 5,000 applications were handed over just before the October 6 deadline, and in bulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Room] Reference
Programs which have merely been yearned at before, which have been sleazily groped at and generalized over and guessed at before, will be gathered up, articulated, melted into a huge common national action by men who have the consuming passion and genius for touching the imaginations of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak] Reference
It was easier to believe in Bacon, a statesman and a philosopher, though his devout followers seldom mentioned that he fell from grace after sleazily pocketing bribes: the difficulty encountered again and again by Shapiro's controversialists is the "unbridgeable rift" between art and life, between creative genius and human imperfection. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We all know the jerks who, after being socially inept in high school and college, suddenly come into their own and work it rather sleazily to their advantage. . . but I don't think most people are that calculating, and I'd imagine that it can be difficult to go from having precious little self-esteem for so many years if only because of the ravages of grad school, to suddenly and mystifyingly being the object of adoration. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
In particular, I’m waiting for you to substantiate this false accusation: “you sleazily hammered and slandered Sarah Palin for months on the flimsiest of issues.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Biden help Obama? Lefts Says Yes; Right Says No:] Reference
Mr. Harrison combines a Balzacian eye for social detail and a poet’s sense of mood with a sleazily sensationalistic plot — this time, so gory at one point and often so far-fetched that it seems more like a story line borrowed from a straight-to-video production than a high-budget feature film. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
How sleazily hypocritical. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
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