What's the difference between filthy and sleazy?

Filthy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It led to a filthy, overcrowded camp housing 43 Bangladeshi workers at the heart of the polluted, industrial Musaffah area, next to car repair and welding businesses.
  • (2) You'd never ask anybody else how much they make, but because I am in a position where you are 'filthy rich' from a young age, it becomes a curiosity.
  • (3) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (4) I climb the filthy stairwell and enter a small, dark reception area.
  • (5) Our people do not understand.” Chechnya’s press and information minister, Jambulat Umarov, wrote on Instagram that Novaya Gazeta should “apologise to the Chechen people” for the “filthy provocation” of suggesting gay people existed in Chechnya.
  • (6) But the filthy fiver, says Dr Ron Cutler, who led the study, could be the spark that lights the fire of an epidemic.
  • (7) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
  • (8) There is heavy traffic, swollen by often badly maintained and old trucks and buses; huge landfill rubbish dumps which are sometimes set on fire; filthy industries just a few miles from the city; two coal-fired power stations; nearby intensive construction which generates choking clouds of dust; and, seasonally, smoke from crop burning in fields from farmland in neighbouring states.
  • (9) I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty."
  • (10) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
  • (11) A federal anti-racism commission called that a bad decision that would have "serious consequences", In another ruling on racism issues, the court said earlier this year that calling someone "foreign swine" or "filthy asylum seeker" may be insulting, but because the expressions are widely used insults in the German language, they do not constitute racist attacks.
  • (12) Or embrace the filthy weather with something more extreme.
  • (13) "By all accounts, it was dark and filthy, with an old bus-seat in place of a sofa.
  • (14) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (15) The drinking water tanks are so filthy the pupils bring their own water.
  • (16) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
  • (17) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
  • (18) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
  • (19) It is also an inversion of the original New Labour platform, which sounded radical about society and the state – keen on new rights for gay people, keen on devolution, keen on human rights – but which was also fiercely pro-market and pro-City, "intensely relaxed" about people being "filthy rich".
  • (20) When I finally reached the top floor, the long corridor was filthy with dust that looked like it had accumulated over several months.

Sleazy


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The air of downmarket sleaziness associated with some of its stores would now seem to extend to its accounting.
  • (2) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
  • (3) And by his "treatment" of women, we mean his assumption that women enjoy being hit on by sleazy guys like him who have at least 90% more nose-cartilage than is normal and who don't take no for an answer.
  • (4) 16 October 2009 The day before Gately's funeral, Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir writes an article that describes events leading up to his death as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
  • (5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
  • (6) The PCC received more than 25,000 complaints, a record number, after Moir wrote about Gately's death, describing events leading up to it as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
  • (7) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (8) A former police officer is less complimentary: "The clientele in these places are by definition pretty sordid, highly manipulative and sleazy," he says.
  • (9) This week, as the Blairites bobbed and weaved their way out of the sleazy embrace of their friend, Gaddafi of Libya, someone forgot to tell the old school tie.
  • (10) Sometimes sleazy, always sincere, his songs have a kind of slacker-stealth to them: his sweet and sleepy voice creeps up on you, earworming its way in until someone asks you to stop humming.
  • (11) Bankers are seen as greedy, librarians as demure, journalists as sleazy, nurses as angels and estate agents as dishonest.
  • (12) Private meetings with newspaper proprietors are not disallowed under any parliamentary or party rules, but Hacked Off, the group campaigning on behalf of phone-hacking victims for a Leveson law for press regulation, said social occasions like this smacked of "sleazy" deals behind closed doors.
  • (13) Miami is a magnet for slick, sleazy stuff,” Snitzer say.
  • (14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
  • (15) Having lanced this boil, Moir lets the pus drip out all over her fingers as she continues to type: "The circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy," she declares.
  • (16) In financial terms, that need not be a bad thing – but Bank says it needs a sharper image: "The issue isn't that it's sleazy.
  • (17) He has the sleazy, bouffanted Master of the Universe act down so well, you may miss him in the rest of the movie.
  • (18) "There have been complaints about my use of the word 'sleazy' to describe this incident, but I still maintain that to die on a sofa while your partner is sleeping with someone else in the next room is, indeed, sleazy, no matter who you are or what your sexual orientation might be."
  • (19) Moir said she honestly believed that Gately's death raised many unanswered questions that were a matter of public interest and defended her use of the word "sleazy" to describe the circumstances of his death, which occurred in Majorca after Gately and his civil partner Andrew Cowles went to a nightclub and brought back a Bulgarian man to their apartment.
  • (20) In April last year the Daily Sport introduced a £1m redesign aiming for a "sexy rather than sleazy" look.