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

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

This one goes from the O.J. murder trial verdict to present day, covering the civil trial, the seediness, the subsequent incarceration.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

On the stage he is all spangles and activity; off the stage, seediness and decrepitude are his chief characteristics.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various