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
Win or lose, a seediness, a smarminess infected the organization.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
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
In most realms of life, seediness isn’t a fatal flaw.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2017
At Lord Guenn's later suggestion that squash was the thing for incipient seediness, he tried that, but played a game far too listless for the Englishman's prowess.
From Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage by Raymond Moreau Crosby
