different between sleazemonger vs sleaze

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sleaze +? monger

sleazemonger (plural sleazemongers)

One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; gossip, blabbermouth.
A peddler of sleaze.
- 1988, "Prince Charming", Complications, page 208
  Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger.
- a 2004, Hunter S. Thompson, "Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA", Hey Rube, page 49
  Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.
- 2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273
  The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?

Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.

sleaze (countable and uncountable, plural sleazes)

(uncountable) Low moral standards.
- 2004, 19 August, London Review of Books
  ministerial sleaze and mendacity
- 1988, January 11, The New Yorker
  The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.
(informal, countable) A person of low moral standards.
- 1999, E. Brewer, Picking Up the Marbles, AuthorHouse, ?ISBN, p. 162.
  She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.
(informal, countable) A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.
- 1989, Weekly World News, "My hubby robbed the cradle and left me with the baby", 7 November, p. 42.
  I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down.
- 1996, S. Hoskinson Frommer, Buried in Quilts, Harlequin, ?ISBN, p. 64.
  Mother, he's such a sleaze! The way he looked at you!
(informal, uncountable) sleazy material
a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze

sleaze (third-person singular simple present sleazes, present participle sleazing, simple past and past participle sleazed)

To act or progress in a sleazy manner.
He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
To slander. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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