seedy

Example Sentences

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"I felt really seedy negotiating with them, but I was in so much pain, I just had no choice," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

After spending several months in two seedy rentals, the McIntires pulled the trigger on a longtime fantasy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

By calling his museum’s large theater the Moral Lecture Room, he hoped to distance his venue from the seedy theaters of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

A few seedy giants of the Strong Arm, who had been captured by the Orkney faction, turned up and said their homage, but the Lancelot contingent was a spate.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White