Adjective: skeezy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | skeezier |
| Superlative | skeeziest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more skeezy |
| Superlative | most skeezy |
Sample Sentences
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“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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like skeezy
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy + sleazy.