seedy
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Sometimes, the streets appear glittering; other times, seedy and dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
This does not mean that companies doing seedy, speculative things won’t be included in the S&P 500.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Capp notes, "Even in London's seedy underworld, a hat felt essential."
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
"I felt really seedy negotiating with them, but I was in so much pain, I just had no choice," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
There was a seedy grandeur about the man.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
“The collision between fantasy and reality — the land of dreams and Tinseltown and all that. But then there’s also that seedier side. It’s just totally unique in that way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
And in the present, he tries to get his life back on track in the seedier sections of the Los Angeles waterfront.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Stephanie Foggett is focused on the darker, seedier parts of that ecosystem.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022
That world-weary take on Hedwig fits Olney’s seedier vision for the show, which got a glitzy Broadway makeover but had black-box origins off-Broadway.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
Tonight’s visitor seemed seedier than most, however, and behaved oddly.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
His clientele has flipped upside down, from some of the most refined people in the New York area to some of the seediest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
In some ways, it was better, since even the seediest movie theaters have functioning latrines and catching a ride home was seldom a concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Even if you’re trying to avoid any sort of retail establishment that might be hawking Christmas wares this season, you’re still likely to hear this song in the seediest of bodegas.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018
On David Zinn’s utilitarian set, an all-purpose, wood-paneled bar, scenes are staged with an assurance that smartly conjures the seediest of interiors and most exalted of landscapes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2017
Of all the seedy bunches of dead beats I ever struck, the aggregation I've just been interviewing was the seediest!
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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