Thesaurus / seedy
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Meanwhile, just because lawmakers are responding to natural disasters with environmental votes doesn’t mean they aren’t seeing other, seedier kinds of legislative opportunities from the same event.
HOW NATURAL DISASTERS CAN CHANGE A POLITICIANMAGGIE KOERTH (MAGGIE.KOERTH-BAKER@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)SEPTEMBER 30, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTAykroyd drunk in a dirty Santa suit perfectly captures the seedy irony at the heart of this commercial holiday.
11 DARK CHRISTMAS MOVIES TO WATCH IF YOU’RE NOT QUITE FEELING THE HOLIDAY SPIRITPEG ALOIDECEMBER 20, 2021TIMEEven if the site wasn’t “seedy” and offered cancer treatment advice as well as investment advice, there would be a severe lack of identity.
TAKING YOUR SEO CONTENT BEYOND THE ACQUISITIONMORDY OBERSTEINFEBRUARY 2, 2021SEARCH ENGINE WATCHEverybody knows the Hollywood pawnshop tropes — the creepy guy smoking behind the counter in a seedy corner store, taking a stolen television off someone’s hands, probably so they can go buy drugs.
IT’S EASY TO ASSUME PAWNSHOPS ARE DOING GREAT IN THE PANDEMIC. IT’S ALSO WRONG.EMILY STEWARTNOVEMBER 30, 2020VOXThere was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)He appears to be seedy, but has been quite hopeless as Sirdar down in the base camp and is without authority.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURYHe was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.
FROM FARM TO FORTUNEHORATIO ALGER JR.Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds!'
THE PICKWICK PAPERSCHARLES DICKENSHe did not extend his hand, but stood still, in his seedy clothes and his coat buttoned to his chin, to hide his lack of a shirt.
SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLANDThe sight of a clergyman speaking with a seedy-looking man might excite comment, but not suspicion.
THE DAFFODIL MYSTERYEDGAR WALLACEWORDS RELATED TO SEEDY
- base
- beggarly
- common
- contemptible
- down-at-heel
- déclassé
- hack
- humble
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- knavish
- limited
- low
- lowborn
- lowly
- mediocre
- menial
- miserable
- modest
- obscure
- ordinary
- paltry
- petty
- pitiful
- plebeian
- proletarian
- run down
- scruffy
- second-class
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- sordid
- squalid
- tawdry
- undistinguished
- unwashed
- vulgar
- wretched
- base
- beggarly
- common
- contemptible
- down-at-heel
- déclassé
- hack
- humble
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- limited
- low
- lowborn
- lowly
- mediocre
- menial
- miserable
- modest
- narrow
- obscure
- ordinary
- paltry
- petty
- pitiful
- plebeian
- proletarian
- run-down
- scruffy
- second-class
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- sordid
- squalid
- tawdry
- undistinguished
- unwashed
- vulgar
- wretched
- badly dressed
- badly worn
- battered
- broken
- contemptible
- crude
- desultory
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disorganized
- down-at-the-heel
- fragmented
- frayed
- frazzled
- full of holes
- in holes
- in rags
- in tatters
- irregular
- jagged
- mean
- moth-eaten
- notched
- patched
- poor
- poorly made
- rent
- rough
- rugged
- scraggy
- seedy
- serrated
- shabby
- shaggy
- shoddy
- shredded
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- torn
- uneven
- unfinished
- unkempt
- unpressed
- worse for wear
- abandoned
- beat up
- below par
- broken-down
- crumbling
- debilitated
- decrepit
- derelict
- deserted
- desolate
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drained
- enervated
- exhausted
- fatigued
- forsaken
- frowzy
- in a bad way
- neglected
- old
- out of condition
- peaked
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- seedy
- tacky
- tattered
- tired
- tumble-down
- uncared-for
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- untended
- used-up
- weak
- weary
- worn-out
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