mass noun
1- immoral, sordid, and corrupt behaviour or material, especially in business or politics（尤指商业或政治方面的）卑鄙, 污秽, 腐化; 低劣行为（或材料）：
political campaigns that are long on sleaze and short on substance.
多卑鄙行径、少实质内容的政治竞选运动。
1.1
- count noun informal, chiefly US a sordid, corrupt, or immoral person〈非正式, 主美〉卑鄙小人; 腐败分子; 道德败坏的人。
no obj., with adverbial
- informal behave in an immoral, corrupt, or sordid way〈非正式〉行为不道德（或腐化、卑劣）：
you're the last person who has to sleaze around bars.
你是最不可能去酒吧厮混的人。
词源
1960s: back-formation from SLEAZY.