skeezy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
21
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈskiːzi/

Definition of skeezy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (slang)Despicable, tasteless.
    ““It feels really different to pay for access to people,” said Kathryn D. Coduto, a Boston University professor who studies dating apps. “Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy.””
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adj

  1. (slang)Despicable, tasteless.
    ““It feels really different to pay for access to people,” said Kathryn D. Coduto, a Boston University professor who studies dating apps. “Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy.””
  2. (slang)Sleazy.
    “I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.”
    “I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls.”
    “The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing.”

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Etymology

US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy + sleazy.

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