seedy
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈsiːdi/
- Informal
:
sórdido
- She felt uncomfortable walking past the seedy motels that lined the highway, each one more run-down than the last.
It's kind of a cool, you know, seedy place, right?
- It's kind of a cool, you know, seedy place, right?
- They're alone in a seedy hotel room.
- It's efficiency apartment in a, in a real seedy area in Miami at the time.
- The entertainment world is a really seedy world.
- More like not seen it but heard things and there is that seedy side to it and and stuff like that.
- We're not just talking about prostitutes, sex workers that you see downtown hanging around seedy hotels.
- And now I'm having to work in the back streets of this establishment in the seedy underbelly of his own customers.
- So in in sort of a seedy part of town and sort of this working class world exactly, she would put anything and everything, including colors.
- Like it just the whole thing to me felt really seedy.
- I've, I was, I thought it was going to be like this dark kind of seedy thing.
- And she's a correctional officer, so been around some seedy man.
Examples
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Someone killed him... In a seedy motel room.
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What had once been a posh neighborhood of fine homes was turning into a seedy area.
Academic text (2013) -
It's kind of a cool, you know, seedy place, right?
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There were only four customers: myself and three seedy characters playing poker at a corner table.
Fiction book (1997) -
Somehow the only option is to stay in a seedy hotel motel.
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It's efficiency apartment in a, in a real seedy area in Miami at the time.
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You see a place like this in the cold light of clay, it looks pretty seedy.
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Should we be conventional and check in to a seedy motel?
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Ed drives past pumping oil wells and into a seedy neighborhood.
Fiction book (1994) -
The car roars through a seedy street lined with bars and clubs.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
65
6.5
Dishonest and having a dirty, unpleasant appearance or atmosphere
46
7.5
Dirty and morally wrong, often involving dishonest or cruel acts
37
3.7
Cheap and low quality that looks ugly or not stylish
25
7.6
Appearing unsafe or not to be trusted
23
4.6
Dark and dirty so it does not look bright
23
3.8
Messy and untidy in clothes or appearance
22
3.7
Covered in thick dirt that makes something look and feel dirty
19
5.4
Looking worn and dirty from use
9
7.1
Very dirty and unpleasant because of poverty or neglect
6
8.4
The bad hidden side of a place or person, often connected to crime
4
5.8
An ugly, dirty place that looks like a garbage dump
2
8.4
Looks dirty and unpleasant, often like a shabby room or shop
2
5.6
Covered with a thin dirty film on the surface
1
7.7
Dirty and untidy in appearance
An area with poor, dirty housing that people do not take care of
Antonyms
Compounds
How Seedy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word seedy came to have another meaning from the idea of being covered in seeds or dirt. A helpful way to remember this is to picture a place scattered with seeds and dirt so it looks dirty or unsafe, and so seedy came to mean 'shabby, dirty, or connected to bad activities'.