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Meanings of seediness in anglès

A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.

Usage of seediness in anglès
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In the public mind, however, an air of rackety seediness surrounds the currency.
The Guardian
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The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
The Guardian
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For better or worse, it's like Sin City without the seediness.
Independent.ie
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Here they appear a motley congregation, a curious agglomeration of seediness.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 / Volume 18, New Series, J...
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And wow, do these photos accentuate the seediness of the artwork.
Wired
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They tend to be riven with secretiveness, seediness and stigma.
The Irish Times
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His American accents, rasping and gasping, and his obvious enjoyment of its seediness drew laughs.
The Guardian
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Brighton, despite its seediness, always had airs and graces.
The Guardian
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He has that kind of charisma-justlike Bill Clinton, but without the seediness of Clinton.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
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Its central figure, the boy gangster Pinkie, is presented as being apart from this modern seediness.
The Guardian
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A perfect monument of seediness and shabbiness, etc.
Memories and Studies
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Already half the blossoms of the clover had turned brown and were shriveling away into inconspicuous seediness.
Adventures in Friendship
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An establishment owned by a rhino horn dealer, for those who need added seediness in their brothels.
The South African
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Despite the general seediness of Bangla and its side streets, Jen, Beth, and I didn't feel unsafe there.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
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Hockey, then, is linked in his mind with a kind of agreeable seediness and also an urbane feeling of excitement.
The new yorker
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He had always detested the seediness, hysteria, and double dealing stirred up in the frenetic atmosphere of the rue Quincampoix.
Millionaire: the philanderer, gambler, and duelist who invented ...
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