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

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

This one goes from the O.J. murder trial verdict to present day, covering the civil trial, the seediness, the subsequent incarceration.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

The area’s post-war decline, precipitated by urban renewal and changing tastes, changed Coney Island’s reputation from glittering spectacle to a kind of glorious seediness, captured by photographers such as Bruce Davidson.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2015

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 Roe, Edward Payson