sleazy的意思

sleazy

英式音标['slizi]
美式英标['sliːzɪ]

基本解释

adj. 质地薄的；肮脏的；低级庸俗的；破烂的

sleazy 污秽的，肮脏的，道德败坏的

来自辅音丛 sl-,黏滑的，淤泥的，泥浆的，比较 slop,slosh,slough,sludge.引申词义脏肮的，污秽的等。

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.: 这些指控让政府的行为显得越发不光彩了。

3. Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty.: 工作实际上在楼下没有窗户的地下室里完成，又脏又累。

5. He looks like a bum who's been drowning his sorrows in sleazy dives.: 他看起来象个游手好闲之辈,整天泡在肮脏的下等酒吧借酒消愁.