Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

sleaze

/sliːz/ noun, verb

Forms sleazes sleazing sleazed

noun (uncountable) Low moral standards.
noun (uncountable, UK, Ireland) Political corruption.
noun (informal, countable) A person of low moral standards.
noun (informal, countable) A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.
noun (informal, uncountable) Sleazy material or publications. “a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze”
verb (intransitive) To act or progress in a sleazy manner. “He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.”
verb (transitive) To slander.

Synonyms

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

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “sleaze”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details