seediness
- 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
This one goes from the O.J. murder trial verdict to present day, covering the civil trial, the seediness, the subsequent incarceration.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
A universal seediness pervaded its houses from roof to cellar; nothing was as it should be anywhere.
From Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
