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seedy in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
ailing indisposed peaked poorly sickly unwell under the weather seedy
- shabby and untidy
"a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
scruffy seedy
- 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"
seamy seedy sleazy sordid squalid
- full of seeds
"as seedy as a fig"
seedy
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