sleazy

sleazy
    adj 1: of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy
           lining"
    2: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: {bum}, {cheap}, {cheesy},
       {chintzy}, {crummy}, {punk}, {sleazy}, {tinny}]
    3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
       life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
       storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the
       sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"-
       James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and
       betrayal" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
       {squalid}]
    

Sleazy \Slea"zy\ (sl[=e]"z[y^]), a. [Cf. G. schleissig worn out,
   threadbare, from schleissen to slit, split, decay, or E.
   leasy.]
   Lacking firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as,
   sleazy silk or muslin. [Spelt also {slazy}.]
   [1913 Webster]
    

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleazy":
      base, breakable, brittle, broken-down, cheap, cheap-jack, cheesy,
      chintzy, cobwebby, common, contemptible, crappy, crumbly, crummy,
      dainty, delicate, delicately weak, dilapidated, dingy, dirty,
      disreputable, down-at-heel, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, flimsy,
      floppy, fragile, frail, frangible, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery,
      insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, light, lightweight, low-class,
      low-grade, mean, namby-pamby, paltry, papery, pasteboardy, poor,
      puny, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, shabby, shattery,
      shoddy, sissified, slight, slipshod, slummy, sordid, squalid,
      tacky, tatty, tawdry, tenuous, thin, trashy, unsubstantial, wispy,
      womanish