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skeezy

American  

adjective

Slang.
skeezier, skeeziest
  1. skeevy.


Etymology

Origin of skeezy

1990–95; possibly blend of skeevy and sleazy

Example Sentences

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“The Queen’s Gambit” has no women in peril, and no skeezy men.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2020

He rejected the skeezy redemption offered by the scandal food chain.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2018

You know, the skeezy underworld source required in every detective procedural.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2018

It was an extension of the existing whisper network we’ve heard so much about the wake of the Weinstein scandal – women warning each other about potentially skeezy or dangerous men.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2017

A performer of evident intelligence playing a character who’s something of a naive dim bulb, Ahmed provides the closest thing this luridly skeezy movie has to a moral center.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2014

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