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• n  tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

• If McCain wants to maintain his reputation as a politician more honorable than most, he's going to have to stop the sleaze.
• Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant.
• The Internet, oft-represented as a domain of sin and sleaze, also hosts a healthy community of believers.

• cheapness
• tackiness
• tat

News & Articles

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• Straight-shooter prosecutors shake Czech political scene
  By Michael Winfrey and Jana Mlcochova PRAGUE (Reuters) - Six years after he was thrown off a high-profile bribery trial and sacked from his job, Czech High State Prosecutor Ivo Istvan is now on the verge of toppling the government with the Czech Republic's biggest ever sleaze case. The dead-pan 45-year-old jumped into the spotlight on Friday when he announced his team had charged seven people ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Brent Bozell in MSNBC
  The incessant sleaze on MTV presents the most compelling case yet for consumer cable choice,Bozell said.
• Theresa May in ic Wales
  Shadow leader of the House Theresa May told Ms Harman, "The public know sleaze when they see it, the people know spin when they hear it and the voters will know what to do when they have their say." "They will get rid of this sleazy Labour...
• Ed Davey in Independent
  Liberal Democrat MP Edward Davey, chief of staff to party leader Sir Menzies Campbell, said: "As this sorry saga continues, it is clear that the Blair Government is now in its dog days, increasingly mired in sleaze. There is an urgent need for party...