seediness
Example Sentences
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Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
The building had housed another nightclub, Kili’s Kafe, that became a symbol of the neighborhood’s seediness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2018
The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
I think there would be a kind of seediness to that, that would offend a very proud man like Anthony Kennedy.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2017
There always seems to me something very pathetic about these old Bloomsbury streets," said Thorndyke, "with their faded grandeur and dignified seediness.
From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman