One way to hold sleaze is as a greasy film lying on something that is meant to be clean: a government, a company, a rack of magazines. You can still see what is underneath, and you can see the dirt on top at the same time. Nothing here is dramatic crime; it is small, ordinary dirtiness that has built up — money taken quietly, lies told easily, sex used as a tool. Because the film sits on the surface, the word also goes onto the people who carry it and onto the pages that are full of it.
From the word’s history
The noun was made backwards out of the adjective sleazy, which first described cloth that was thin and of poor quality — it looked acceptable but would not hold up. That picture of a thin surface that cannot bear weight is still what the modern word accuses people of.
這個名詞是從形容詞 sleazy 倒推出來的，而 sleazy 最早是說布料又薄又差：看起來過得去，實際上撐不住。從「布薄到撐不住」到「人品薄到撐不住」，中間那個「只有表面」的感覺一直沒變。
Wiktionary, "sleaze"
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