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

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

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

The plebeians could only reap what they had sown, and as they had sown nothing of any value, they had fallen into a state of extreme seediness.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?