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An example use of sleaze in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… clean up the sleaze and cronyism …”
Sleaze is a word that means a person who is immoral, unethical, or unscrupulous.
the word sleaze occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sleaze can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;