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Recent Examples of skanky My first outfit was from Le Chateau, a skanky bathing suit and a weird top. Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skanky
Adjective
  • Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.
    Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Filipino-language thriller follows Dahlia, a disillusioned police aide who steals money from the safe of her corrupt police chief boss, distributing it to slum dwellers whose homes were destroyed.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Adjective
  • The sleazy criminal has an inside man in Ted’s office.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But because this enterprise has been spearheaded by a sleazy politician with an almost messianic hold on his fans, Mark Ruffalo’s Kenneth Marshall, too many aspiring space cadets have signed up.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Skanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skanky. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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