SLEAZINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing

Synonyms:

manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sleaziness" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sleaziness"):

raggedness (shabbiness by virtue of being in rags)

Derivation:

sleazy (of very poor quality; flimsy)

Meaning:

Morally dishonorable

Example:

an embarrassing sleaziness that I hope will be corrected by the more ethical newspapers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sleaziness" is a kind of...):

dishonorableness; dishonourableness (the quality of not deserving honor or respect)

Derivation:

sleazy (morally degraded)