sleazy

Other forms of sleazy

comparative or superlative

sleazier

comparative or superlative

sleaziest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sleazy

What does sleazy mean?

sleazy means "of cloth; thin and loosely woven". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sleazy?

sleazy has 2 syllables: slea-zy. The stress falls on "slea". In IPA it is /ˈslizi/.

What is another word for sleazy?

Close synonyms include bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sleazy a common word?

sleazy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.