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 the news was broadcast into Nashville homes, with crime scene images and footage of famous bystanders, phones began to ring, from the top of the country music world to its seedy underbelly.
  — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 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: 2 Dec 2024