What is the meaning of seedy?

adjective

  • Full of seeds.
    • usage: "as seedy as a fig"
  • Shabby and untidy."a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin- Mark Twain
  • Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
    • usage: "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"
  • Morally degraded.
    • usage: "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"
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