Richard Corliss

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.

American Writer

Barkha Dutt

Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it that while the sleaze and slime of the political underbelly puts us off, we aren't warmed by the relative virtue and scrubbed-clean morality of the Marxists?

Indian Journalist

Chuck Eddy

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

American Journalist

Gordon B. Hinckley

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

American Clergyman

Jeffrey Toobin

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

American Lawyer

Jane Hawking

The carer of the disabled person is always in the background. People don't want to hear about the sleaze and the nitty-gritty and the hardship.

English Author

Dick Cavett

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

American Entertainer

Sleaze implies negative judgment and is used to criticize or express disapproval.

Negative Connotation

Often used in journalism to describe questionable practices in public life.

News and Media

Avoid using 'sleaze' in formal contexts, as it's more suitable for casual conversation.

Not for Formal Use

Used to describe things that are considered vulgar, especially when sexually suggestive.

Sleaze

Negative Connotation

News and Media

Not for Formal Use

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