seedy
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(a) full of seeds
- as seedy as a fig
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(s) shabby and untidy
- a surge of ragged scruffy children
- "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
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(s) 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
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(s) morally degraded
- a seedy district
- the seamy side of life
- sleazy characters hanging around casinos
- "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly
- "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce
- the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal