seediness
Example Sentences
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Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
The building had housed another nightclub, Kili’s Kafe, that became a symbol of the neighborhood’s seediness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2018
The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
I think there would be a kind of seediness to that, that would offend a very proud man like Anthony Kennedy.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2017
Some were in seal-skin caps, some in furs, others in sea boots from which the toes protruded, with ragged trousers, threadbare coats, and a general air of Arctic seediness.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick
