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

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

In most realms of life, seediness isn’t a fatal flaw.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2017

Friday.—Dressing and undressing is certainly needless fatigue, and evidently causes this headache and general seediness.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir