Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Offensively disgusting or repulsive; sleazy.
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- adjective slang
disgusting ordistasteful
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now when your kind of skeevy neighbor hits on you, you ponder whether he's hot in a silver fox on crack kind of way.
Dana Schuster: How You Know You're Getting Old, Older or Just Not So Young Anymore Dana Schuster 2010
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Dude is kind of skeevy looking, to be honest, in a pederast kind of way.
Standing Cheese 2009
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It sounds kind of skeevy, but it's nothing compared to …)
Book-Wyrm-Knits 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprietor James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains James O'Keefe's 'Prank' On CNN The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprietor James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains James O'Keefe's 'Prank' On CNN The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprietor James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains James O'Keefe's 'Prank' On CNN The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprietor James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains James O'Keefe's 'Prank' On CNN The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprieter James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains O'Keefe's Journalism Jason Linkins 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprieter James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something?
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains O'Keefe's Journalism Jason Linkins 2010
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Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprieter James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau ...
'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains O'Keefe's Journalism Jason Linkins 2010
adoarns commented on the word skeevy
One dictionary notes the etymology: "from Italian schifo, meaning 'disgust.'"
February 6, 2008
senwick commented on the word skeevy
Similar meaning to sleazy.
November 3, 2008
senwick commented on the word skeevy
Similar meaning to sleazy.
November 3, 2008
senwick commented on the word skeevy
Similar meaning to sleazy.
November 3, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word skeevy
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November 3, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word skeevy
I am two years behind adoarns. Just read this etymology today in Newsweek, in an article by Joan Huston Hall. Who, by the way, ought to be a wordnikker if she isn't already. :)
August 4, 2010