seedy

seedy (ˈsiːdɪ)

—*adj* , seedier, seediest
1.	shabby or unseemly in appearance: seedy clothes
2.	(of a plant) at the stage of producing seeds
3.	informal not physically fit; sickly

'seedily

—*adv*

'seediness

—n

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seedy

1440, "fruitful, abundant," from seed (n.). Meaning "shabby" is attested from 1739, probably in allusion to the appearance of a flowering plant that has run to seed.

Example sentences

He had his own, slightly seedy friends and could keep himself busy golfing and

clubbing.

It was a pretty seedy building, the guy operated the elevator back and forth.

He tells about the seedy lives of some of their neighbors.

Used poorly, e-mail can make the rejection process look downright seedy.

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"If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations."

-Willa Cather

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