sleazebucket

plural sleazebuckets · alternative sleaze bucket · alternative sleaze-bucket

1. derogatoryslangA term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.

   Tell Phil Rucker he's a sleazebucket.

   2023, Bob Woodward, The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump, page 189

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   He bought cops like this sleazebucket, bought juries, bought witnesses, bought loyalty.

   2008, Roxanne St. Claire, Then You Hide, page 5

   Apparently the Griner brothers weren't the only sleazebuckets abroad with explosives.

   2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties

   He instantly recognized the older of the two, a distinguished-looking man with a craggy face and a full head of silver hair—the Chief, the sleazebucket who had made a move on his mom .

   2019, Michael Betcherman, The Justice Project

   Synonyms: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot

2. derogatoryslangAnything sleazy, vulgar, and disgusting.

   Be it noted that you're involved in such sleazebucket capers.

   2011, Ian Watson, The Flies of Memory

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   Such hypocrisy hit Upfront like spiked Kool-Aid recently when Tribune TV critic Gary Deeb began his column: "ABC, the sleazebucket network that has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years by exploiting the cruelest and most antisocial instincts of the mass television audience , is trying to welch out of a solemn promise it made more than a year ago."

   1979, “Guyana: A question of taste”, in Chicago, volume 28, page 14

   I loved this stuff when I was 14, and I never thought "sleazebucket" when it got dazzlingly vulgar.

   1994, The New York Times Magazine - Part 5, page 3

   One of the things a short scene can't show you is that Halloween is directed and acted with a great deal more artistry and craftsmanship than the sleazebucket movies we've been talking about.

   2015, Murray Leeder, Halloween, page 1981

   1. derogatoryslangA lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.

      He put us in this sleaze bucket in the worst part of town.

      2013, Jack L. Chalker, When the Changewinds Blow

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      It's a typical sleazebucket of a place—broken-down bed, filthy floor, and a cracked mirror.

      1995, Faye Kellerman, “Bonding”, in Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, editor, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, page 477

      We're in a sleaze bucket of a place, but for eight bucks a night you can hardly grumble.

      2010, Teri Louise Kelly, American Blow Job: A Novel

      There's bound to be one in a sleazebucket place like this.

      2022, Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon, page 236

      Synonyms: scumhole, shithole, sleazehole, slimehole