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

Win or lose, a seediness, a smarminess infected the organization.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

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

Already half the blossoms of the clover had turned brown and were shriveling away into inconspicuous seediness.

From Adventures in Friendship by Grayson, David