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as in pervert
a person of low moral character
don't post your private info and revealing pics online—there are some real sleazeballs out there
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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
despite the constant rebuffs, the sleazeball at the bar kept hitting up people for drinks
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Recent Examples of sleazeball
Kind of like The Leftovers, but a sleazeball-only edition.
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Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, Odell and his potential heirs, callous Belinda (Téa Leoni) and sleazeball Shepard (scene-stealer Will Poulter), take the discovery of a new species to unethical extremes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
Pallaoro opens with a close-up of Monica (Lysette) in a tanning bed, then shows her fending off unwanted attention from a sleazeball in the parking lot.
—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022
And Merrick, the newspaper publisher (played by Jeffrey Jones); E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson), the sleazeball who ran the Grand Central Hotel — those are real people.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
Netflix announced Thursday that Terry Silver — the wealthy sleazeball played to ponytailed perfection by Thomas Ian Griffith in The Karate Kid Part III — will be making an appearance in Cobra Kai season 4.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 27 May 2021
Why were lifelong feminists joining a party led by a man with a reputation as a macho dinosaur, or even a sleazeball?
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
Stone portrays himself as a dandy and a dirtbag, a sleazeball who embodies the rage and drive for fame that sits at the heart of the worst corners of American politics.
—Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
As for the merits of the case, young guy is a sleazeball.
—Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleazeball
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Also, what many now interpret as Kubrick’s exposé of elite perverts was, in fact, mostly Schnitzler’s doing.—
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Tarpley Hitt: Postwar miscreants, several perverts (value-neutral), corporate consolidation, lawsuits, copyright law, knockoffs/fakes, America, lying, dolls.—
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The island represents the periphery of tourism’s slow eastward creep.—
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The applause for blocks, leaves and singles gets louder and meatier as England’s target creeps under 100, but Jacks’ dismissal with 97 still required ends any realistic hope of the unlikeliest of away victories.—
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For those with less-briny palates, a fine jerk chicken and a number of steak cuts are also available.—
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Mike’s older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), is our entry point to Hawkins High; a pretty striver, she’s recently been distracted from academics by a fling with popular jerk Steve Harrington (Joe Keery).—
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After spending a decade and a half in the brains of a meth kingpin and a slimeball attorney, Gilligan wanted his next protagonist to be a force for good.—
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Now, these slimeballs no longer pose a threat to public safety.—
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Brewer depicts the world of music impersonators with a fair amount of affection, like the rodeo clowns of late 20th-century America.—
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its shows featuring acrobats, athletes and clowns – all doing spectacular feats.—
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In Peter Weir’s true-life survival drama about a group of Gulag prisoners who make their way across a vast stretch of the U.S.S.R. and into the Himalayas, Farrell plays a stab-happy sleazebag who nevertheless proves of value during the escape.—
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Continue reading … MEDIA SPAT – Radio host fires back after Trump calls him 'racist sleazebag' in heated exchange.—
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Choose a crate that is a comfortable size for your dog.—
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The stretchy fabric allows for a full range of motion and remains in place through every downward dog and tree pose.—
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So Porter is now the guy the State Police have supposedly doing a deep dive on the clowns, grifters and assorted gender-bending jokers that Maura Healey hands six-figure hack sinecures to — judicial nominees, college presidents, the heads of the veterans’ homes, etc.—
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Even more rare is finding what hunters call a joker, a truffle, weighing in at 100 grams.—
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“Sleazeball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleazeball. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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