1. Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
   "a skanky old fridge";
   - filthy, foul, nasty, cruddy [informal]
    
2. Foul and run-down and repulsive
   "a skanky bar on the edge of town";
   - flyblown, squalid, sordid, skeevy [US, informal], grotty [Brit, informal]
    
3. Unpleasantly disreputable or morally degraded
   "The bar had a skanky reputation";
   - seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

Derived forms: skankiest, skankier

See also: dirty, disreputable, soiled, unclean