How to Use seedy in a Sentence

seedy

adjective

• He was wearing a seedy suit.
• The seedy flat in the Mission with a room to crash in — that’s gone.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Gone are the Capri and Royale, the seedy motels that were a magnet for crime.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 12 May 2018
• But Aubergine didn’t, and doesn’t, have a spartan, seedy, health-food vibe.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Be sure to check plants every 2 or 3 days and pick fruit when small and less seedy.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2024
• The seedy glamour of his early work, which brought him fame in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is gone.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• The strawberries just sat there, wet and seedy on their flat-cut sides.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 May 2018
• Cook was shot in the chest by a clerk at the seedy $3-a-night Hacienda Motel at 3 a.m.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Some were drawn to the seedy side of Skagway and ran afoul of local law.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• What was Meiko doing in such a seedy area and who would have wanted to shoot him?
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• Is the New Black, this series is a more comedic take on the seedy world of bounty hunting.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• In the 1990s, an effort to clean up the seedy image of Times Square brought new office buildings to the area.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2022
• Boasting all the one-liners, shoot-outs, and stunts one would expect from the genre — all grounded in the seedy world of the '70s L.A.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024
• The house was in an out-of-the way, slightly seedy neighborhood, with stuck-in-the-’70s décor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
• Whole wheat or sourdough work too, but anything too seedy or crusty will mess with the vibe.
  — Smitha Menon, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2023
• Many horror films go to the depths of dirty, seedy, filthy Gothic horror.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• The slender, curvy fruits of this Italian heirloom are firm and less seedy than many types.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 19 July 2020
• That seedy motel was constructed at the base of the Innerbelt Bridge in the Flats.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• The motel room is seedy, with smudged walls and frayed carpeting.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Why does Jules hook up with older men in seedy motel rooms?
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Day three, three wet and three stools; day four, four wet and four stools; and day five six to eight wet and three to four yellow, seedy stools.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 9 Aug. 2024
• One man carries on with a waitress; the other a seedy drug dealer in a blonde wig.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023
• This seedy bread starts with sprouting rye berries, which Shim soaks, strains, and rinses twice a day for two days.
  — Alex Pastron, Bon Appétit, 26 Dec. 2019
• This sets them on a course to meet a man named Yuri (Nikola Djuricko), a seedy Russian smuggler.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• Not so any more—as the new David Kempinski breathes new life into this once-seedy part of town.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• Every morning, the brothers had to walk a seedy stretch in the neighborhood.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• Every weekend, the heart of the city is overrun by foreigners in strip joints and seedy bars.
  — Mike Corder, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• In some ways the movie is like when the lights come on at the end of the night in a club and what once felt seductive is in an instant revealed to be seedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• When Keep ended up in Arizona, the search for adrenaline steered him into seedy corners.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• To pay for Shirin’s life-saving surgery, Saba finds a waitressing job at a seedy hookah lounge in Dhaka — a position in which, she’s told, women tend not to last — with long hours that only complicate her caregiving duties.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024