Sleaze-merchant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From sleaze + merchant.

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