sleazebucket

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sleaze +‎ bucket.

Noun

sleazebucket (plural sleazebuckets)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk
    • 2008, Roxanne St. Claire, Then You Hide, page 5:
      He bought cops like this sleazebucket, bought juries, bought witnesses, bought loyalty.
    • 2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties:
      Apparently the Griner brothers weren't the only sleazebuckets abroad with explosives.
    • 2019, Michael Betcherman, The Justice Project:
      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 .
    • 2023, Bob Woodward, The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump, page 189:
      Tell Phil Rucker he's a sleazebucket.
  2. (slang, derogatory) Anything sleazy, vulgar, and disgusting.
    • 1979, “Guyana: A question of taste”, in Chicago, volume 28, page 14:
      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."
    • 1994, The New York Times Magazine - Part 5, page 3:
      I loved this stuff when I was 14, and I never thought "sleazebucket" when it got dazzlingly vulgar.
    • 2011, Ian Watson, The Flies of Memory:
      Be it noted that you're involved in such sleazebucket capers.
    • 2015, Murray Leeder, Halloween, page 1981:
      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.
    1. (slang, derogatory) A lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.
      Synonyms: scumhole, shithole, sleazehole, slimehole
      • 1995, Faye Kellerman, “Bonding”, in Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, editor, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, page 477:
        It's a typical sleazebucket of a place—broken-down bed, filthy floor, and a cracked mirror.
      • 2010, Teri Louise Kelly, American Blow Job: A Novel:
        We're in a sleaze bucket of a place, but for eight bucks a night you can hardly grumble.
      • 2013, Jack L. Chalker, When the Changewinds Blow:
        He put us in this sleaze bucket in the worst part of town.
      • 2022, Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon, page 236:
        There's bound to be one in a sleazebucket place like this.
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