Meanings
- informaluncountableThe characteristic or state of being skeevy; distastefulness.
In January 2010, Richtman’s skeeviness was still apparent. He was arrested for possessing child porn and pleaded guilty.
2017 May 29, David Foster, “Sex offender performed lewd act in front of girls at Hamilton library, cops say”, in The Trentonian, retrieved 01 Sep 20172 more examples
Adam just takes it to another level of skeeviness entirely. […] [W]e learn that when Adam was 16 he made a marriage pact (an agreement to get married if they are both single when they reach a certain age) with a^([sic]) 11 year old girl.
2011 November 9, Lucas High, “Review: Workaholics, "Karl's Wedding"”, in TVGeekArmy.com, retrieved 01 Sep 2017Had America not absorbed the sheer skeeviness of that decade, how else would it have become comfortable electing a thrice-married man who ran beauty contests and graced casinos, one of them with a strip club, with his name?
2017 September 1, David Friend, “Opinion: The 1990s Gave Us the Trump Teens”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Sep 2017
Origin
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