seedy
Origin of seedy
1Other words from seedy
- seed·i·ly, adverb
- seed·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby seedy
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How to use seedy in a sentence
Meanwhile, just because lawmakers are responding to natural disasters with environmental votes doesn’t mean they aren’t seeing other, seedier kinds of legislative opportunities from the same event.
How Natural Disasters Can Change A Politician | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 30, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightAykroyd drunk in a dirty Santa suit perfectly captures the seedy irony at the heart of this commercial holiday.
11 Dark Christmas Movies to Watch If You’re Not Quite Feeling the Holiday Spirit | Peg Aloi | December 20, 2021 | TimeEven if the site wasn’t “seedy” and offered cancer treatment advice as well as investment advice, there would be a severe lack of identity.
Taking your SEO content beyond the acquisition | Mordy Oberstein | February 2, 2021 | Search Engine WatchEverybody knows the Hollywood pawnshop tropes — the creepy guy smoking behind the counter in a seedy corner store, taking a stolen television off someone’s hands, probably so they can go buy drugs.
It’s easy to assume pawnshops are doing great in the pandemic. It’s also wrong. | Emily Stewart | November 30, 2020 | VoxBut beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life.
ME3M was like online sex without the sex: seedy, dehumanized, segmented, and awkward—yet often still erotic.
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art | Jay Michaelson | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the rest of you, here's a seedy little fact: Men of pretty much any age are mainly attracted to 20-year-olds.
Heartache by the Numbers and OkCupid’s Founder Has Got Yours | Will Doig | October 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld.
The Boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there.
No Movie Stars, No Red Carpet, But Off-Season Cannes Is Still Magic | Liza Foreman | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)He appears to be seedy, but has been quite hopeless as Sirdar down in the base camp and is without authority.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryHe was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.
From Farm to Fortune | Horatio Alger Jr.Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds!'
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensHe did not extend his hand, but stood still, in his seedy clothes and his coat buttoned to his chin, to hide his lack of a shirt.
Sevenoaks | J. G. Holland
British Dictionary definitions for seedy
/ (ˈsiːdɪ) /
shabby or unseemly in appearance: seedy clothes
(of a plant) at the stage of producing seeds
informal not physically fit; sickly
Derived forms of seedy
- seedily, adverb
- seediness, noun
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