English

Noun

sleaze-merchant ‎(plural sleaze-merchants)

1. A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material
   • 1993, Ian Mitroff & Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19508-398-9, p. xvii.

     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.