skeezy

comparative skeezier · comparative more skeezy · superlative skeeziest · superlative most skeezy

1. slangDespicable, 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.”

   2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. slangSleazy.

   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.

   2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, page xiv

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   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.

   2005, Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University, page 93

   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.

   2014, Alena Smith, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails, page 192