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Meanings of seedy in English
Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
Synonyms
Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
1
Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
3
Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
4
But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
1
I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
1
He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
1
But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
5
Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
Full of seeds.
Usage of seedy in English
1
In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
6
Another few heavy, flat-footed steps and a seedy-looking Pavek was among them.
7
Its perception as a seedy locale is just one of several hurdles.
8
Once detained, they held him at a seedy motel until backup arrived.
9
I do feel a little seedy; it's these horrid cigars of yours.
10
But the seedy venue has been dogged by controversy from the start.
11
He speaks with a waitress at a seedy cafe called the Virginian.
12
The seedy little man entered and was asked courteously to seat himself.
13
Slice off the seedy core from each quarter, then chop into dice.
14
He was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.
15
But at that moment a thin, seedy-looking man came into the lounge.
16
The Edwardian terraces, net-curtained and seedy, ran straight for half a mile.
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Seedy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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