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Definition of Sleazily
1. sleazy [adv] - See also: sleazy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleazily
Literary usage of Sleazily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maine Pioneer Settlements by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1909)
"In these days this island is shorn utterly of the garb of Nature, unless one
excepts its sleazily woven carpet of wild grasses that is stretched across its ..."
2. The Complete Housekeeper by Emily Holt (1903)
"Lay a bit of stout but sleazily woven woollen upon the wrong side of a rug, fasten
down the frayed edges with casual stitches here and there, ..."
3. The Sokoki Trail by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1907)
"In these days this island is shorn utterly of the garb of Nature, unless one
excepts its sleazily woven carpet of wild grasses that is stretched across its ..."
4. The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to how a Hundred Million by Gerald Stanley Lee (1920)
"Programs which have merely been yearned at before, which have been sleazily groped
at and generalized over and guessed at before, will be gathered up, ..."
5. A Manual on Cattle: For the Use of the Farmers of Georgia by Georgia Dept. of Agriculture, John T. Henderson (1880)
"... and the skin easy of movement over the flesh— not flabby, as is sometimes the
case with a very thin- skinned and sleazily made-up animal. ..."
6. Encyclopædia of Household Economy by Emily Holt (1903)
"Lay a bit of stout but sleazily woven woollen upon the wrong side of a rug, fasten
down the frayed edges with casual stitches here and there, ..."
7. Life Overrules Death-Anti Terror/World Peace Poems by Nikhil Parekh (2005)
"... diminishing flicker of the sleazily artificial bulb; was the Omnipotent blaze
of the bountifully unassailable Sun, Infinite times better than the ..."
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