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 most emblematic of a certain Southern California seediness that dots so many streets and that Tarantino seems to relish is the Crown Pawn Shop in Canoga Park.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019

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

Already half the blossoms of the clover had turned brown and were shriveling away into inconspicuous seediness.

From Adventures in Friendship by Grayson, David