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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "seedy" in a sentence

    seedy example sentences

    seedy


    1. justifies the small, seedy trivialities


    2. Admittedly, I’m no political savant, but I figured that a seedy city with various


    3. The place was seedy compared


    4. A seedy accountant at that


    5. So that’s how I’d arrived at this tatty little so-called college on the second floor of a seedy building in mid-Johannesburg next to a balding man who looked at me in disbelief when I’d summarised in about five sentences the state of affairs now


    6. It felt too seedy to have secret passages


    7. He didn’t want to be seedy but everything seemed to boil down to who could hurt the most people and who had the most secrets


    8. A seedy district in Sector6 where gambling, drugs and


    9. Time rolled by as he lived his lonely existence, playing in dirty bars and seedy clubs, while he watched musicians with half his talent rise to the top and become icons


    10. Still, I loved the whole seedy scene and was pretty good at it

    11. Peter was the way he was because even though he was main stream middle class America he found the dark and seedy part of life interesting


    12. It’s several bells ‘till dawn, yet, but it’s late enough that only the most seedy taverns and inns are open


    13. He rang Callucini who told him to try and find some pushers who worked for Reina so they searched the seedy parts of the city and found a guy called Pedro who gave him the new address which was a large isolated warehouse with huge areas of wasteland around it in Republica


    14. It was after one particular morning, when Megan had been so engrossed in tracking back a rather seedy sounding company, that she decided that what she really needed was to look deeper into Bert’s office


    15. Later that day, Mitchell pulled into a dingy high-rise hotel in a seedy part of Miami; in search of the recommended hit man


    16. The lack of flashing neon lights or suggestive signage and marquee distinguished this club from other more seedy establishments that had flourished on the outskirts of the city and which were often the watering holes for transients, golfers, and motorcycle gangs


    17. By this time, video arcades had earned a reputation for being seedy, unsafe places


    18. It all sounds very seedy but in the end there's nobody to blame


    19. 'This is a somewhat seedy West End hotel


    20. doctor and a lawyer lost at a seedy bar in the slums of a big city

    21. would find a cheap seedy hotel that would accept cash and not ask any ques-


    22. of a seedy hotel


    23. Now, even though we loved anything furry, we have never been drawn into the seedy underbelly that is 'twitching', seeing this as more of a medical affliction passed on by insanitary bird watchers


    24. Weak, middle-aged, and seedy, he looked


    25. None of his hard and seedy life mattered any more


    26. back for fear that she would think that he was being seedy


    27. outside a seedy pub that always had a never ending supply of wil ing donors


    28. ‗Working girls‘ that worked the seedy hostess bars of


    29. It was a seedy place with a low ceiling and smelt


    30. He‘d found her working the seedy hostess bars of

    31. What had she been doing?--(the awful innocence of the question)--how perfectly miserably seedy she looked; poor little Ingeborg; was it really just that tiresome tooth?


    32. shouldn’t be together all the time and even the strongest need a little time alone with friends but I hoped that we would never reach a stage where one of us was looking for answers in a seedy bar at the bottom of a glass


    33. George took them to a series of seedy hotels on the West Side, in the Bowery and in Greenwich Village


    34. Teddy’s was a seedy strip joint, just outside of Beaver Creek, and known for having broken up a lot of marriages


    35. In a seedy motel at the far side of Chicago’s dirtiest neighborhood, Linda rolled off her lover and lit a cigarette


    36. She heard him putting his bicycle in the stable underneath, and talking to Jimmy, who had been a pit-horse, and who was seedy


    37. The Alley was a seedy passageway that connected the Georgia Bar to the Roadhouse, two Athens dives that catered to underage townies


    38. There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke


    39. D'ye ken bare socks? Seedy cuss in the Richmond? Rawthere! Thought he had a deposit of lead in his penis


    40. A seedy man from the Daily Mirror entered in a stained mackintosh of theatrical cliché

    41. But who is in love with me? I am a seedy old fellow," said the Vicar, rising, pushing his chair away and looking down at himself


    42. Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet—that he should enjoy some punchdrinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning


    43. Twenty minutes later, I had driven down to the seedy area between the Civic Center and Union Square


    44. I was still on the Porsche’s tail when we went up and over the hills into San Mateo and south on El Camino Real, a seedy thoroughfare bordering the Caltrain tracks


    45. ‘There in the window stood the dumpy, seedy little woman!!


    46. A waxworks fright, good and proper, she was, and the policemen beamed, viewing her, and strolled on, and beamed at Monsieur Guillotine for his act too, and moving, the police were relaxing now, and seemed not to mind being called late on a jolly venture into a rehearsing world of acrobats and seedy magicians


    47. Attendance was rumored to be dropping, ticket prices were escalating, and cost reductions might hurt comparisons with competition if acreage started looking seedy


    48. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several places


    49. With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class


    50. They was pretty tolerable seedy, and so was his hat

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    Synonyms for "seedy"

    seamy seedy sleazy sordid squalid ailing indisposed peaked poorly sickly under the weather unwell scruffy ragged decrepit dilapidated deteriorated decayed faded dingy

    "seedy" definitions

    full of seeds


    shabby and untidy


    somewhat ill or prone to illness


    morally degraded