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
Whatever positivity there is in this gets steamrolled by all-encompassing seediness, the series’ nightmare vision of what it is to be young and alive.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2019
But the thankless and unglamorous work of listening to residents gripe about the seediness of the streets turned out to be a legal gold mine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2018
The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
But as you entered and passed from the province of the master to that of the mistress a new element was apparent, struggling with, but unable to overcome, the predominant tendency to unthrift and seediness.
From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe
