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Disreputable, informally
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scuzzy
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Word definitions for scuzzy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a scuzzy part of the city EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was absolutely filthy, horrible and scuzzy , with disgusting stains on the floor. ▪ There was a knock, and the navy and the green sweaters were both brought in by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1968, North American colloquial, perhaps a blend of scummy and fuzzy [Barnhart]. First attested use is in reference to Ratso Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 dirty or grimy. 2 disreputable; sleazy.
Usage examples of scuzzy.
Beyond that, she could see the elevated Harlem River Drive, beyond which was just a scuzzy mud bank leading down to the river.
And now Freddy, this scuzzy creepazoid, this Loser with a finger-capital L, would rather watch television than her lingerie-clad body.
President Nixon is relaxing, as it were, in his personal beach-front mansion at San Clemente, California, surrounded by the scuzzy remnants of his once imperial guard.
He was living in a cottage down the hill from the university, down in a flat, scuzzy student part of Santa Cruz, rooming with Benny Phlogiston and Aanna Vea.
The conversation stopped and Edward started to retreat to the bedroom, started feeling scuzzy for eavesdropping, but Lurleen began again.
Or like this house on Gilby Street where for a week or so I had to hold my breath when I came up the sidewalk past the shrubs because of the worst scuzzy smell like something really rotten.
The Primes were fighting back, sending up flyers and big ships, their beam weapons punching through the scuzzy continent-wide clouds to intercept the rain of lethal machines as they sank down through the ionosphere.
She wouldn't breathe a word about the scuzzy mongrel tryin' to rub up against her, and grabbin' her at the door of the hotel room.
The scuzziest down-and-out dive on Skid Row was too wholesome for him.