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Definition of sleazy : Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.

Synonyms:

moth-eaten, tinny, paltry, ailing, shabby, chinchy, junky, crappy, trampy, bedraggled, crummy, trashy, shoddy, poor, peaked, cheesy, low-grade, gossamery, gimcrack, devious, broken-down, timeworn, wretched, loud, flyblown, rubbishy, untruthful, dubious, punk, slutty, better, corrupt, thin, ratty, filmy, scrubby, unwell, scruffy, cut-rate, brassy, run-down, flash, deceitful, sickly, bombed-out, good, trumpery, dilapidated, sluttish, gauzy, grungy, skanky, tacky, mangy, bum, bad, down-at-the-heels, down-at-heel, lousy, low-rent, el cheapo, faded, unscrupulous, schlock, meretricious, execrable, unprincipled, rotten, dingy, miserable, dishonest, beat-up, second-rate, neglected, tatty, decrepit, insubstantial, inexpensive, bargain-basement, threadbare, seamy, dirty, cheapjack, squalid, tumbledown, mean, slatternly, inferior, under the weather, decaying, frothy, poorly, flashy, dumpy, mediocre, cobwebby, terrible, tattered, schlocky, dog-eared, unsubstantial, disreputable, seedy, tatterdemalion, fraudulent, cunning, rundown, indisposed, gossamer

unclean, grubby, unhygienic, unsanitary, grimy, messy, filthy, contaminated

earthy, crude, salty, philistine, cheap, degraded, low, gaudy, common, depraved, barnyard, rude, gross, unpolished, tactless, sordid, repulsive, inelegant, homespun, animal, offensive, colloquial, shameless, unbecoming, base, profane, boorish, ignoble, undignified, rough, cockney, raw, rank, crass, glaring, tasteless, coarse, indelicate, ignominious, tawdry, unrefined, barbaric, brazen, scandalous, graceless, clumsy, unseemly, in bad taste, ill-bred, chintzy, coarse-grained, revolting, outlandish, brutish, obscene, vulgar, idiomatic, garish, broad

Usage examples:

• The press in the corner still held a few clothes, threadbare and sleazy, and in the desk were some dry letters and a Business Book- at least, that's how it was marked- with lists of names, each having an occupation or task set down opposite it, I suppose the names of long- dead slaves. - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.
• These winter garments appear to be made of a mixture of cotton and wool, very coarse and sleazy. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
• If you had been standing behind her chair you would have seen, emerging miraculously from the white surface under Fanny's pencil, a thin, undersized little figure in sleazy black and white, whose face, under the cheap hat, was upturned and rapturous. - "Fanny Herself", Edna Ferber.