as in corrupt
having loose sexual morals
a pop star who cultivates an image that is more skanky than sexy
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Recent Examples of skanky
My first outfit was from Le Chateau, a skanky bathing suit and a weird top.
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Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 June 2022
Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 June 2022
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Many such stories also contain the suggestion, sometimes explicit, that the old civilization was unbearably corrupt and that its violent collapse was overdue.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Hunter Biden had been the point man in the decades-long Biden family business of selling access to his father and his political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American foreign regimes, including the Chinese Communist Party.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.—
Ashley Bardhan,
Vulture,
5 July 2024
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Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2024
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In real life, the person convicted of financial fraud and fetishized for cutting a sleazy swath through Vice-era Brooklyn was Kari Ferrell.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Similarly, what’s worse than PolitiFact’s being a willing participant in the conspiracy to hide President Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline is its sleazy attempt last week to absolve itself of any wrongdoing.—
Becket Adams,
National Review,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Skanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skanky. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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