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seedier

ADJECTIVE

run-down, dilapidated

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crummy decaying decrepit dingy grubby scruffy shabby sleazy squalid tacky

WEAK

ailing beat up bedraggled dog-eared down-at-the-heel drooping droopy faded flagging frowzy gone to seed in a bad way mangy messy neglected old overgrown poor poorly ragged ratty sagging sickly slovenly tattered threadbare tired torn unkempt untidy unwell used up wilted wilting worn

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clean good neat nice respectable

WEAK

luxurious posh

Example Sentences

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Novelists have always been entranced with the seedier side of show business, from Michael Tolkin’s classic “The Player” to Theodore Roszak’s paranoiac “Flicker” to Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s devilish “Silver Nitrate.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Stephanie Foggett is focused on the darker, seedier parts of that ecosystem.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2022

That world-weary take on Hedwig fits Olney’s seedier vision for the show, which got a glitzy Broadway makeover but had black-box origins off-Broadway.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

Both books are set in the seedier parts of Massachusetts.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

Tonight’s visitor seemed seedier than most, however, and behaved oddly.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson