skeevy

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/ˈskiːvi/

adjective

Disgusting or distasteful.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveskeevy (comparative skeevier, superlative skeeviest)

comparative skeevier · superlative skeeviest

  1. slangDisgusting or distasteful.

    She’s already running the whole place on her own. Well, her and that skeevy priest-boy.

    2012, Kazerad, Katia: Gather information, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), November 09 2012
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    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

    1970, Carol Evan, Glad and Sorry Seasons, page 3

    GODZELLA. (After Cinderella has gone.) Mama, can we get a new stepsister? Cinderella is so icky and skeevy.

    1980, Jerry Chase, Cinderella Wore Combat Boots, page 8

    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.

    2013, Jessica Hagedorn, Manila Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 183

    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.

    2017, Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 232

Origin

  1. Italianschifo“disgust, nausea”
  2. Englishskeevy

From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) plus English suffix -y. Compare Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skeevy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skeevy.

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