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sleaze-merchant en · NOUN

Etymology

From sleaze + merchant.

Meanings

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:

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