sleaze-merchant

noun

A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material.

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Meanings

nounsleaze-merchant (plural sleaze-merchants)

plural sleaze-merchants

  1. A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material.

    Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.

    1993, Ian Mitroff, Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xvii

Origin

From sleaze + merchant.

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