1) Baseness 2) Dirtbag 3) Dishonesty 4) Tackiness 5) Tat 1) Campaign season smears 2) Cheap, vulgar tastelessness 3) Cheapness 4) Corruption 5) Dirt bag 6) Letch 7) Lowbrow material 8) Lowlife 9) Person of low repute 10) Real lowlife 11) Scandalous stuff 12) Schlock 13) Scum of the earth 14) Seedy character 15) Shoddiness 16) Shoddy material 17) Smut 18) Sordid sort 
Sleaze is slang for shabbiness, sordiness, immorality.