seedy
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In the antediluvian world before seedy promoters began mixing martial arts, there was no way of knowing.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
It remained, however, a countercultural pursuit to be played in liminal, seedy spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
"I felt really seedy negotiating with them, but I was in so much pain, I just had no choice," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
After spending several months in two seedy rentals, the McIntires pulled the trigger on a longtime fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
I ran to the cactus and gathered a shovelful of the succulent, seedy pears.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
“The collision between fantasy and reality — the land of dreams and Tinseltown and all that. But then there’s also that seedier side. It’s just totally unique in that way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Stephanie Foggett is focused on the darker, seedier parts of that ecosystem.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022
By the early 1960s, the crowds were seedier, the clubs grubbier and the production all but gone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
That world-weary take on Hedwig fits Olney’s seedier vision for the show, which got a glitzy Broadway makeover but had black-box origins off-Broadway.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
The trailer was seedier than I remembered, and the babies’ play area was a mucky mess.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
His clientele has flipped upside down, from some of the most refined people in the New York area to some of the seediest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
He is now, he informs us, a successful Los Angeles publicity agent, but in the ’80s he was an entrepreneurial minnow in Times Square at its seediest.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
In some ways, it was better, since even the seediest movie theaters have functioning latrines and catching a ride home was seldom a concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Even if you’re trying to avoid any sort of retail establishment that might be hawking Christmas wares this season, you’re still likely to hear this song in the seediest of bodegas.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018
Williams, in the seediest and most dilapidated rusty black, had a face of deepest melancholy.
From The Crimson Blind by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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