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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skanky
Adjective
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This is part of the most corrupt bargain in American history. KARL: But are their counterpunches having any impact at all?—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Eric Adams has been a lousy mayor for the most part, one who couldn’t see the loaf for the crumbs and squandered his political capital on maintaining a dizzying array of corrupt friends and cronies.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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Schwarzenegger stars as the haughty, sleazy eldest son of a wealthy family whose patriarch and matriarch are portrayed by Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey, respectively.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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Eleni’s starting to realize the gravity of her situation when her sleazy lawyer Leslie Walker (Ken Garito) arrives to bluster about jurisdiction and procedural missteps.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Skanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skanky. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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