sleaze-merchant

English

Etymology

sleaze + merchant

Noun

sleaze-merchant (plural sleaze-merchants)

  1. A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material
    • 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:
      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.
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