skeevy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
/ˈskiːvi/
Definition of skeevy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(slang)Disgusting or distasteful.
“Carefully holding onto every dirty, skeevy piece of information he collected, he used it in his own best interests to ferret his way into a Vice Presidency”
“GODZELLA. (After Cinderella has gone.) Mama, can we get a new stepsister? Cinderella is so icky and skeevy.”
“She’s already running the whole place on her own. Well, her and that skeevy priest-boy.”
“He was huddled in the doorway of this skeevy noodle joint in Binondo, the kind of skeevy joint in a skeevy alley where you wouldn't expect to see a guy like Paco. Or maybe you would.”
“The idea of hanging out with a skeevy poker player and all of his skeevy friends was not my idea of a good time. But I didn't want Lottie to go alone, either. I assumed the guy was dangerous.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) plus English suffix -y. Compare Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
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