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

The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

Broadway musicals are as popular as ever, but much of the grit and seediness has been washed clean, and the area is now more akin to a family-friendly theme park than a bawdy vaudeville enclave.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2015

M. could extract something even from the autumnal seediness of the hedgerows, affirming that they were for all the world like a theatre when the holland coverings are on.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William