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Example sentences for: sleaze

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It amounted, Toobin argues, to a "high-minded rationale for covering the sex lives of famous people" that satisfied a "hunger for sleaze" in a "competitive market for journalists and journalism."
The media tycoon has built his global empire on schlock and sleaze, used heavy-handed tactics and legal chicanery to evade laws and taxes, toppled British and Australian governments to expand his domain, all but bribed Newt Gingrich and Margaret Thatcher with sweetheart book deals, made mockery of the grand traditions of Australian/British/American journalism.
So if, in fact, both parties are equally implicated in all the categories of campaign-financing sleaze raised by the Lippo case, why is the Indogate scandal such a big story?
But no one seems to care any more about influence peddling, a category of sleaze that is equally pervasive, arguably more venal, and much more easily cured.
Oprah has abandoned sleaze for self-esteem.