seedy
adjective
abounding in seed.
seediness
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a word derived from
seedy.
Example Sentences
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Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Whatever positivity there is in this gets steamrolled by all-encompassing seediness, the series’ nightmare vision of what it is to be young and alive.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2019
The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
Anyone who visited Coney then knows that it possessed a dark charisma, a melancholy charm in which the boardwalk’s seediness was, at once, moodily present and a proof of what was lost.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
Of course, Mr. Doolittle had heard rumors, as had many others, but they seemed hardly enough to account for De Launay’s depression and general seediness.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
