英语词汇sleazy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sleazy
词源	sleazy [M17th] Of unknown origin, sleazy originally described thin or flimsy fabrics. The familiar modern senses ‘squalid and seedy’ and ‘sordid, corrupt, or immoral’ did not develop until the 1940s, from the idea of cloth being cheap and poor-quality. The corresponding noun sleaze was created from sleazy in the 1960s.
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