Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Sleaze and crime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sleaze" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Sleaze
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Shane Berryhill's Zora Banks Urban Fantasy series is a modernized example with Chattanooga, TN's genteel Southern heritage contrasted against its modern-day sleaze and supernatural crime.
Source: Southern Gothic -
He fights crime, rescues orphans, rebuilds dams, etc, but he also punts children like footballs, kidnaps girls to pass them off as distressed damsels on whole other planets, and apparently hits on women like a total sleaze.
Source: Web Video / Jetters Abridged -
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: Despite The Sleaze Brothers' real crime through the film was attempting to kidnap Big Bird to put into their circus, they ultimately get punished by officer John Candy for "Stealing an apple from a kid's lunch box."
Source: Felony Misdemeanor
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