seediness

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

And if the Rococo is the drunken debauch of the Renaissance then the Pigtail would be the seediness which follows after it.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various