SLEAZEBAGS Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words

sleazebags

noun

plural of sleazebag, slang

as in perverts

a person of low moral character the whole town is aware of the dishonest way those sleazebags run their business

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as in bastards

a person whose behavior is offensive to others a Mardi Gras celebration that was spoiled by a bunch of drunken sleazebags

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Recent Examples of sleazebags Never forget that Harkness was once a CIA operative and perhaps served a higher calling before creating his own mercenary network and taking jobs for monied sleazebags like Cantor. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 These Country hating sleazebags should pay a big price for the damage done. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

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Noun

This blatant fealty over objectivity perverts the process by choosing personal loyalists instead of independent public servants.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026
This blatant expression of fealty over objectivity perverts the process by choosing personal loyalists instead of independent public servants.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of perverts

Noun

Lee and his Burning co-writer Oh Jung-mi resist what might have been the first instinct of many filmmakers by refusing to make Ye-ji and Sang-woo overly patronizing rich jerks.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
The Ars OpenForum is a place for readers to ask questions, compare notes, argue (without being jerks to each other), and go down all sorts of rabbit holes.

— Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of jerks

Noun

As summer wraps up and fall creeps in, the sharks return south.

— Asia London Palomba, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2026
Treasury yields are at their highest since 2007, and as oil creeps higher on the Iran standoff, investors find themselves in yet another guessing game.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of creeps

Noun

Many Orlando-area homes feature skeletons that tower over the neighborhood, witchy covens, horror movie icons, clowns, pirate ships, pumpkins, zombies and vampires.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Friday, Edith, and the maintenance bots are sometimes goofy comic-relief clowns.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

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