sleazy

Is it just me or is tech particularly sleazy right now?

But it's also fair to publicly shame sleazy behavior when you see it.

The truly sleazy sites usually do badly on both metrics though.

I really dislike the term "up to N%" - this reminds me of sleazy commercials reporting "up to 80% discount".

They've always been a sleazy spammy company whose advertising is full of blatant sexism.

It is rather sleazy that they tried to portray Assange as a self-obsessed, egomaniacal cult leader of some kind.

What they do isn't illegal, but it should be; its revenue model is unethical, sleazy, blackmailing, extortion.

I've always defended moderate eBay fees because they provide relatively smooth access to a big marketplace, but not any more - this is pretty sleazy.

Why don't we demand the government to step in on airlines' sleazy dynamic pricing games, where a person using a different device to book the same flight at the same time pays a different fare?

As someone who has been buying cars for himself for 20 years or so, and never new, I would agree with the article in part, but with some important provisos:1. While Craigslist is a valuable resource, make sure you follow Hack #4 and #5 - there are a lot of sleazy individuals who will pass salvage title or otherwise garbage vehicles.

I know from the article that these are actual, working female engineers, but part of me wants to say that the ad designer obviously picked them for "sexy" as opposed to "professional," and that seems sleazy and sad.

That's not anathema to producing software.\bWith clear conflict of interest statements and an editorial checking process for paid editors, there's a way to do it without it being sleazy or shilling.

These tricks are depressing and bolsters my attitude more toward a profitable yet slower growth start-up, doing without the sleazy investors...By no means am I saying all are sleazy, but a slower growing startup will not attract the better of the lot.