First and foremost that we are not the arbiters of all things illegal and seedy.
From the washingtonpost.com
Frank also lives in a seedy suburban neighborhood far from any center of action.
From the nytimes.com
Your idea of a living nightmare is some chicken joints and a seedy loan company?
From the guardian.co.uk
A bright boy from a troubled family grows up in a seedy hotel in 1930s St. Louis.
From the post-gazette.com
Set in the late 1960s, the movie is tactless, shameless and almost proudly seedy.
From the couriermail.com.au
Small plants bear shimmery pink, seedy fruit and produce leaves up to 2 feet long.
From the sfgate.com
For the men, the encounters are alluring, if seedy, interludes at a bargain price.
From the time.com
Behind the wheel, parked in a seedy neighborhood, Anna shot up, then started home.
From the washingtonpost.com
We follow the happenings of a seedy motel's inhabitants over the course of a year.
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Full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
Scruffy: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
Ailing: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
Seamy: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with... ...
(seediness) shabbiness: a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
Seedy is a compilation album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy. The album was released in 1996 through Karma Kredit Records. Karma Kredit was a pseudonym for David Hayes' Very Small Records. The compilation collects studio outtakes, live tracks, and demo recordings. ...
Disreputable; run-down; full of seeds; untidy; unkempt; infirm; gone to seed; suffering the effects of a hangover
(Seediness) A defect in a varnish caused by small particles which sometimes become visible when examined by transmitted light. Varnished surfaces may present a specky or sandy appearance due to this defect.
Rough or gritty appearance of paint due to a very small insoluble particles.