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

But most emblematic of a certain Southern California seediness that dots so many streets and that Tarantino seems to relish is the Crown Pawn Shop in Canoga Park.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019

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

Broadway musicals are as popular as ever, but much of the grit and seediness has been washed clean, and the area is now more akin to a family-friendly theme park than a bawdy vaudeville enclave.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2015

"A mouse," I said, and forgot my seediness; I was interested.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)