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

Win or lose, a seediness, a smarminess infected the organization.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

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

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

The disreputable cart, the lifeless, blind old pacer, the home-made harness, the seediness of it all—the pathos.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood