sleaze-merchant
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sleaze-merchant (plural sleaze-merchants)
- A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material
- 1993, Ian Mitroff, Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xvii:
- Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.