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• In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.From the entry strip
• He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.From the entry shifty
• Just what I don't need when I'm feeling kind of seedy.1998, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose. From the entry rhubarb rhubarb
• It’s a seedy time of the night and Jacky is telling me about sailors and their needs.1989, Michael Palin, Around the World in 80 Days, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry puritan
• The magic hour of 5 p.m. at Sporters when the seedy crowd turns into cruisable princes.1976 April 17, Joe M. Montgomery, “Lansdowne Let Down”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry cruisable
• If you don't have jaboticabas, use red grapes, but make sure they are an old-fashioned seedy, intensely flavoured variety.2010, Clare Richards, Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare's Kitchen, Wet Season Press, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry jaboticaba
• Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry Aertex
• Suede’s glamour, though, is of a distinctly seedy stripe.1993 May 27, Steven Daly, “Suede: All That Glitters”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry neo-glam
• So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.2016, Alan Tootill, Cole and the Clairvoyant, page 45. From the entry hooky
• "He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose.2011 February 7, Gina Picallo, “Helen Mirren interview”, in The Telegraph. From the entry kitchen-sinky
• All he has to do is read the local newspaper and history books: It’ll be just as corrupt and seedy as before Katrina, he believes.2007 August 26, Associated Press, “Old worries may still plague new New Orleans”, in NBC News, New York, N.Y.: NBC, archived from the…. From the entry haircuttery
• Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 326. From the entry neck
• When tie had gotten a steroid prescription then, the doctor's office had been seedy and the doctor himself had smelled of Wild Turkey.1994, Tim Green, Ruffians: A Novel, page 51. From the entry wild turkey
• Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb.1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry public
• He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House. From the entry mouse-colored
• Twenty-one years after the movie "Trainspotting" gave the world a glimpse into Edinburgh's seedy, heroin-filled underbelly, the franchise is back on the map with “T2 Trainspotting.”2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Feb…. From the entry underbelly
• For now, he remains immersed in the seedy world of the black-marketeers and fraudsters of the postwar period, and their links with those publicly espousing a fairer society.2005 July 12, Chris Arnot, “Enemies of the fairer society”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry black-marketeer
• The race will go to the strong, the clean in mind and in body; not to the bent, the pimpled, the grubby apostles of the seedy status quo.1967 January 26, Sten Overlach, “Le Dauphin”, in Sandy Gage, editor, McGill Daily, volume 56, number 67, Montreal, Que.: Students’ Society…. From the entry pamby
• There has been no plant in the State for commission carbonising and all burry, seedy and shivvy wools have been transported to the Eastern States or overseas for treatment.1948, Dalgety's Annual Wool Review for Australia and New Zealand. From the entry shivvy
• Vice City is . . . a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills.2002 October 27, Lev Grossman, “Busjacking for Grownups”, in Time, retrieved 02 Aug 2014. From the entry small, unmarked bills

Meaning of seedy

1. adjective Containing or full of seeds.
2. adjective Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.
3. adjective Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

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Questions about seedy in a sentence

How do you use seedy in a sentence?

Seedy is used as an adjective. For example: “Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.”

What is a short sentence with seedy?

“Suede’s glamour, though, is of a distinctly seedy stripe.”

What does seedy mean?

Seedy means containing or full of seeds.