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

But the thankless and unglamorous work of listening to residents gripe about the seediness of the streets turned out to be a legal gold mine.

From Washington Post • Dec. 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

The area’s post-war decline, precipitated by urban renewal and changing tastes, changed Coney Island’s reputation from glittering spectacle to a kind of glorious seediness, captured by photographers such as Bruce Davidson.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2015

Here they appear a motley congregation, a curious agglomeration of seediness.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 by Chambers, William