Seedy - Definition
seedy
adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn:
scruffy, seedy]
3: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a
little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed,
peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the
weather, seedy]
4: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the
sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"-
James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and
betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid,
squalid]
