seedy

Example Sentences

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By calling his museum’s large theater the Moral Lecture Room, he hoped to distance his venue from the seedy theaters of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

However, Paperny explained that Combs may well struggle to secure a buyer who was willing to pay the $61.5 million asking price—particularly given the property’s seedy connection to the rapper’s trial.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026

There might be some who have had enough of all these seedy headlines and do not want any more Andrew all over their Christmas dinner.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

I ran to the cactus and gathered a shovelful of the succulent, seedy pears.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya