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“The adjective sleazy must have acquired its present-day meaning to conform to its sound shape. A word cannot exist in slums, surrounded by slatterns and sluts, and preserve its purity amid all this slime.”
― Anatoly Liberman, Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone

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