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 most emblematic of a certain Southern California seediness that dots so many streets and that Tarantino seems to relish is the Crown Pawn Shop in Canoga Park.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019

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

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

Friday.—Dressing and undressing is certainly needless fatigue, and evidently causes this headache and general seediness.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir