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

Whatever positivity there is in this gets steamrolled by all-encompassing seediness, the series’ nightmare vision of what it is to be young and alive.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2019

The building had housed another nightclub, Kili’s Kafe, that became a symbol of the neighborhood’s seediness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2018

This one goes from the O.J. murder trial verdict to present day, covering the civil trial, the seediness, the subsequent incarceration.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

Of course, Mr. Doolittle had heard rumors, as had many others, but they seemed hardly enough to account for De Launay’s depression and general seediness.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West