skeeviness

English

Noun

skeeviness (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The characteristic or state of being skeevy; distastefulness.
    • 2011 Nov. 9, Lucas High, "Review: Workaholics, "Karl's Wedding"," TVGeekArmy.com (retrieved 1 Sept 2017):
      Adam just takes it to another level of skeeviness entirely. . . . [W]e learn that when Adam was 16 he made a marriage pact (an agreement to get married if they are both single when they reach a certain age) with a 11 year old girl.
    • 2017 May 29, David Foster, "Sex offender performed lewd act in front of girls at Hamilton library, cops say," The Trentonian (retrieved 1 Sept 2017):
      In January 2010, Richtman’s skeeviness was still apparent. He was arrested for possessing child porn and pleaded guilty.
    • 2017 September 1, David Friend, "Opinion: The 1990s Gave Us the Trump Teens," New York Times (retrieved 1 Sept 2017):
      Had America not absorbed the sheer skeeviness of that decade, how else would it have become comfortable electing a thrice-married man who ran beauty contests and graced casinos, one of them with a strip club, with his name?
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