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seedy

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seedy in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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 
  2. shabby and untidy
    "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
    scruffy  seedy 
  3. 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 
  4. full of seeds
    "as seedy as a fig"
    seedy 
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