How To Use Seedy In A Sentence

She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
They were a bit more seedy and sleazy, which was what I liked.
The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
Set in 1912 New York, The Iceman Cometh spotlights the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipedreams of the stewbums, anarchists, and hookers of Harry Hope's seedy saloon.
It's a seedy bar in Accra's red-light district.

There are tens of thousands of people in this province addicted to the machines, which are to be found in almost every seedy bar in Montreal and elsewhere.
The old image of snooker is of seedy, smoky, dimly-lit halls filled with sallow-complexioned men, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other as they wait their turn at the table.
Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
After my parents split up, my mother disappeared into a postdivorce second adolescence of her own, taking me with her to seedy bars to entice guys—no insightful heart-to-hearts or maternal advice to be had there. Dont You Forget About Me
Already quaint and seedy: the draperied ladies on the frieze of the carrousel are his father’s father’s mooncheeked dreams; if he thinks of it more he will vomit his apple-on-a-stick. The Worst Years of Your Life
They suddenly had much less time to hang out in seedy bars and undertake wild art projects.
Finally, he winds up sporting just a cowboy hat and a smile in a seedy, drug-infested strip club.
However, up until very recently, your average karaoke bar was a frightfully seedy affair.
But since this is the final film in a seedy sexploitation shocker trilogy, you know it has to end badly for our insane slayer.
Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer.
Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue.
Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy, decaying stonework and the painted wood.
This mythic territory, once navigated by Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, hosts a journey to declining river towns, tiny evangelical churches, and seedy whorehouses populated by disturbed and disturbing characters.
Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. Isabelle
Infrastructure is seedy and long past disrepair.
The grandeur of the fights escalates steadily until, in the movie's final sequence, the Big Bad attacks Zen with wave after wave of apparently limitless henchmen in a blood-soaked battle that moves from a restaurant to a training hall to the facade of a seedy motel, which gives plenty of opportunity for bone-crunching multistory plummets. Archive 2009-07-01
It depicts the seedy underbelly of a large building, complete with wires in the air and on the ground, air ducts, tubes, big metal boxes, and other big things that make a lot of noise.
He wandered the seedy areas with his eyes wide open and his camera at the ready.
So I got them to move me into a little hotel in Soho, the seedy area of New York.
Uncle Vernon had taken a wrong turn and they'd ended up in a pretty seedy area.
Young Greek chefs have been opening restaurants in seedy run-down industrial neighborhoods. Archive 2007-11-01
Desert_, p. 550.] [Footnote 272: Disciples of Seedy ben Isa, whose sanctuary is at Fas, and who possess the art of fascinating serpents.] [Footnote 273: N.B. This is a misinterpretation of the Arabic words here used, which, literally translated, signify, _God alone, is great! An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Stationed in Boston Father Smith is drawn into the seedy underworld of cockfighting.
The pool hall was full of seedy characters as Sabrina sunk a red ball into the corner pocket, slamming two more in on rebound.
In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel.
Anne's eye grew tearful again, as they stepped from the carriage into the somewhat seedy docks of London.
a seedy district
And this album clearly recalls the band's original, vaguely seedy electropop sound, with contemporary beat collages and nouveau sheen giving it a breath of new life.
It boasted a couple of reasonable restaurants, a few basic, low-life hotels, and one or two seedy bars.
He was in a daze but had enough sense to lie low for a bit and so he registered at a seedy hotel in that part of town, where he hoped no-one would come looking for him.
We were staying in a seedy hotel close to the red light district.
From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
But hey, that's just me, speaking as a Montrealer, where rioting is almost as ubiquitous in this city as seedy strip clubs, poutine, and potholes. Supriya Dwivedi: Vancouver 17 Years Later: Still Rioting
Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception.
The slavery convictions shed light on a seedy underside of the economy that most people are completely unaware of.
Enough for 4leftover roast pork 180gcarrots 180ggalangal or ginger a large lump to give 4 tsp gratedmayonnaise 150mllime ½coriander leaves optionalreserved fat and skin from the roast floury or seedy baps or soft rolls 4Using two forks, tear the pork into thin shreds, then place in a bowl. Nigel Slater's pork recipes
A minute later I found myself in a red-light district crammed with seedy hotels. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Nothing for the spin doctors to worry about, but just the sort of seedy little affair that sets a TV critic's heart aflutter.
Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
It was the seedy part of town that hides behind a modern estate that has been cleverly built in front of it as camouflage.
Working the lap dance rooms and seedy motels of New Orleans, Stewart's character (real name Allison, working girl name Mallory and many others) is a damaged runaway with a filthy mouth and an even filthier idea of how to make money. Sundance Review: Kristen Stewart’s ‘Welcome To The Rileys’ » MTV Movies Blog
No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines.
Susan lives in the sumptuous 2-bedroom apartment next door to Bug's seedy bachelor "bedsitter. Microserfs
Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. Silas Marner
They buy new clothes and hang around and get dragged into seedy parties like that. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Starting off in the seedy clubs and backdoor whiskey bars of Sunset Strip, writers will embrace their inner straight male lesbians and put on the fishnet stockings, friz their hair, and learn to type in falsetto to blazing riffs, tricky hooks, and pedantic sililoquies that would make Slash blush. LOST Waves Back at Fans of the Nerd Persuasion
But this was going way beyond the seedy frisson of virtual voyeurism.
The one deals with boxing promoter Turkish working in the seedy world of unsanctioned, illegal bare-knuckle boxing.
So declares the enigmatic Driver in this masterfully convoluted neo-noir, which ranges from the dive bars and flyblown motels of Los Angeles to seedy strip malls dotting the Arizona desert. Drive, Once a Neil Marshall and Hugh Jackman Movie, Becomes a Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling Movie | /Film
Here, alert officers can check for passes and ensure seedy elements, such as tatted gang members, slip through to cause trouble. Carthage Press Homepage RSS
The deuteragonist is a rather seedy individual who actually invented the hominids and is now on the run while trying to find a way to destroy his creation.
Athletic and family-oriented (all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult), it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing.
That detail sticks in her mind, and she ends up leaving the seedy abortion clinic without having undergone the procedure. American Grace
But today seedy glamour is being replaced by the dim light of computer screens and the unhealthy pallor of those who stare into them for most of their waking hours.
as seedy as a fig
The storms of years had washed the paint from it; it had "hogged" in the roof where the great square chimney projected its nicked bulk from among loosened bricks scattered on the shingles; and from knife-gnawed "deacon-seat" on the porch to window-blind, dangling from one hinge on the broad gable, the old structure was seedy indeed. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
This gorgeous white blends Argentina's own lime blossom-scented torrontes grape with appley chardonnay, delivering aniseedy flavours with grapey fruit.
A minute later I found myself in a red-light district crammed with seedy hotels. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Against such descriptions, he juxtaposes the opinions of racists, embodied in the seedy character of Wilkes, the boastful character of Williams, and in the ‘other hangers-on’ and ‘tars’ at the Virginian tavern and Marine Coffee-House.
Cyril works as a co-bouncer (with the humourless Nigel) and occasional singer in a seedy niterie, the Blue Cockatoo Club, owned by the cigar-puffing Colwyn Stanley, a former bed-mate of Cyril's mother.
The moral crusader commented that she ‘had seen all sorts of things’ in the seedy back streets of London, but she did manage to raise a smile while looking at tarty outfits in a shop window.
But that may not be beneficial if his primary mate cuckolds him as soon as he starts to look seedy and worn out.
I drank away the fear and excitement in a seedy bar in downtown San Salvador.
-- Anise; cardamom; carraway; citron; coriander; fennel; gromwell; melon; musk grains; mustard; nettle; parsley; saffron; tulip, seedy buds of; wormwood. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Her family were heartbroken as they watched helplessly as she slipped further into the seedy world of drugs and vice.
The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
They have everything in Myrtle Beach from dark and seedy rooms where older women walk a kind of gangplank through the barroom-clubs that don't even have signs out front-to elegant, softly lit marble-lined dreamscapes full of diaphanously-gowned young women. The Morning News
They suck you in to their seedy world.
May, who lives in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, has for years conducted an illicit affair with a rodeo cowboy named Eddie.
And running after them, day and night, came such a poor, lean, seedy, hard-worked old giant, as ought to have been cockered up, and had a good dinner given him, and a good wife found him, and been set to play with little children; and then he would have been The Water Babies
Thus exercise, a new skill and a decent night's sleep and productive Thursday can replace overindulgence and a somewhat seedy and slothful Thursday.
He probably would have been more at home refereeing at a bare-knuckle boxing match - or calling time in a seedy East End pub.
Mario then plunges into the seedy underworld of drugs in order to rescue his daughter.
When not losing money in seedy gambling dens or making wisecracks about chaos theory, he's shooting heroin.
Dusty and seedy somewhat, as men are after a journey, I chatted with Mark and the noble peer for a few minutes at the door, while my valise and et ceteras were lifted in and hurried up the stairs to my room, whither I followed them. Wylder's Hand
Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
The republicans are engaged in seedy rumor mongering ... in a dark corner whispering campaign. Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
It's tacky and seedy, but it's got these pretensions to properness - seaside landladies and all that stuff.
Breastfed babies begin to have loose, seedy or curdy, mild-smelling yellow poop. Baby Bites
It's a total fleapit / dive, lots of seedy types hanging outside - my guidebook makes it sound like Hell right in the middle of the ruins.
He didn't like the look of the seedy characters who were hanging around outside the bar.
The scam that made him a far right hero was just as deceitfully seedy. Robert J. Elisberg: Apparently, It's Hard Out Here for This Pimp, too
We are both Scottish and we both do figurative paintings set in a seedy underworld.
Yuzu is really seedy, and has very little juice to squeeze out.
Both goats and figs are sacred to Juno in this aspect, goats being notoriously randy, and figs being prolifically seedy. Tew's Day!
The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
Over the past few years, Warren has paid more attention to drugs, booze and women than his career, which as of late has mostly consisted of a series of seedy exploitation films and low-rent theater productions. The Official Star Wars Blog » Seth Green vs. Warren the Ape with Lightsabers!
The unfortunate party members, staying in seedy bed-and-breakfasts on shoestring budgets, are reduced to scoffing free booze and vol-au-vents at corporate receptions.
This is what I think is a seedy pub down the road from me, but they say is now an inexpensive gastropub.
Alternative guides can offer exciting opportunities to touch the seedy side of the city.
Parts of Soho have a slightly seedy reputation, but we decided that being shown around responsibly by two adults would effectively remove the possibility of the two scallywags getting into mischief.
a friendly, though seedy, abernethy and glass of wine or beer; and then went home virtuously to bed. She and I, Volume 1
Swallow looks tired and careworn and slightly seedy.
With help from the city, they cleaned up their properties, tore down some of those seedy hotels and landscaped with palm trees.
Meanwhile, Ona is discovering the seedy underside of her workplace.
Most of the movie takes place in dark, seedy bars, and for the most part the black level is dark and shadows are well defined, while in other scenes the darker areas appear reddish and indistinct.
Where you once safely drove around the dodgy streets of seedy inner-city suburbs, you're now confined to relying on your alertness and stealth to ensure safe passage.
Although I like my rarebit made with seedy wholemeal toast, which I think gives a more interesting texture and a pleasantly malty flavour, I respect your right to use any sort of bread you like although no one will persuade me of the merits of the Welsh rarebit foccacia, seen on the menu at a pub I recently didn't eat at. How to cook perfect welsh rarebit
All this smacks more of a seedy circulation battle than a genuine attempt to help.
Brothels are usually seedy affairs, tucked discreetly away from churches, town halls and the like (or so somebody we met in a bar once told us).
Bianchi is at his best when he delivers his seedy, sordid lyrics in a blank, innocent voice.
he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin
It just means more women resort to coat hangers in seedy alleys and end up dead. Part iii. « Love | Peace | Ohana
The backdrop is a seedy, exciting and evocative Auckland, with characters ranging from gang members, wealthy and elite crims, concert pianists, farmers, hippies and neo-Nazis.
The last time we were together was at a seedy bar in Jerusalem.
A bearded ruffian, whose only costume was a flannel shirt and a pair of seedy check trousers, but whose eye was as keen as a hawk's, and whose shining "matchlock" had seventeen notches [24] along its stock, caught the subaltern's query. On the Heels of De Wet
At first baby poop is dark brown/black, and if you're breastfeeding the baby's poop looks like yellow seedy mustard. Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing
It was hired to get hold of the evidence that was needed to justify a judgment already made, like a seedy gumshoe.
Labels: bibliomancy, richard mavis, seedy stories posted by John McGrath @ 2: 48 AM 1 Comments Archive 2007-11-01
The "funkiness and earthiness from the flask," Mr. Wilson writes, brought back memories of a travel assignment in Amsterdam that turned into a seedy night — an uncomfortable visit to a sex show followed by shot-after-shot of genever chased with beer (what the Dutch call kopstoot or "head butt"). On a Spirited Journey
Larry was less impressed with its reputation than Emerald was, for he found it distinctly seedy. YELLOW BIRD
Yirunta left his six-legged partner with instructions and then led them out onto the seedy boulevard, heading for the nearest upshoot. Glory Lane
However, it was written to portray the seedy underbelly of society in a slapstick kind of way.
The simple set is ingeniously transformed from teen bedroom to hotel lobby to seedy bar.
One of the most notorious spots for the homeless is Market Street - a seedy section of strip bars, liquor stores and boarded up shops where dozens of junkies, drunks and other street people make the sidewalk their home.
I want to remember seedy, clamorous Omonia Square.
Whatever else he might be - seedy scribbler or arrogant money-grubber - he had excellent sources and they had been prepared to talk.
The Good: A top-notch cast has distinguished itself in seedy Atlantic City, under the patient guiding hands of The Sopranos 'Terence Winter and executive producer Martin Scorsese. Fall TV Report Card: How Is the New Class Doing?
In the midst of this _entourage_ stood the "bar-keeper," and in this individual do not picture to yourself some seedy personage of the waiter class, with bloodless cheeks and clammy skin, such as those monstrosities of an English hotel who give you a very _degout_ for your dinner. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
The seedy underbelly of what was otherwise a fabulous meal was the pudding.
Any person man or boy, with one dollar in his pocket, though his clothes be patched and his hat seedy, is in better conditon and much to be preferred to the conditon of the one who has no money and who is "diked" up in good clothes and owes for them. Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
The next specimen is perhaps a 'swell' out at elbows, a seedy and somewhat ragged remnant of a very questionable kind of gentility -- a gentility engendered in 'coal-holes' and 'cider-cellars,' in 'shades,' and such-like midnight 'kens' -- suckled with brandy and water and port-wine negus, and fed with deviled kidneys and toasted cheese. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
Enough for 4leftover roast pork 180gcarrots 180ggalangal or ginger a large lump to give 4 tsp gratedmayonnaise 150mllime ½coriander leaves optionalreserved fat and skin from the roast floury or seedy baps or soft rolls 4Using two forks, tear the pork into thin shreds, then place in a bowl. Nigel Slater's pork recipes
Once dependably seedy, it has been transformed by the forces of gentrification.
And today the visible inequities and inadequacies of the system that turns young people off politically are compounded: our political punch has been spiked with an undetectable component -- untraceable monies that threaten the very foundation of our democracy: freedom of speech freely shared, and not hidden in seedy recesses of election law. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Indifference of Younger Voters and Our Imperiled Democracy
Deprivation indicator scores are high and it is reputed to be a seedy haven for criminals and outcasts.
The bank robber enlists an equally seedy character and, over a bottle of rotgut, the two agree to become partners.
Blackpool, with its Las Vegas aspirations and seedy seafront reality, is a natural for television drama.
Yesterday I went into the Used DVD Emporium, a seedy hole in the wall bespeaking a shadily acquired inventory of hot items for your viewing pleasure.
Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
I'd never been to Portland, but I had a blast there too, going to seedy strip clubs and cheap bars and sleeping on the floor of a residential hotel -- one of the comfiest floors I've ever encountered. John Wellington Ennis: Elf GIrl Reverend Jen brings Her Lower East Side Glamour to Hollywood (PICS/VIDEO)
When he stumbles around in seedy motel rooms, drunk beyond reason, we believe him. Superb Jeff Bridges strikes rich notes in 'Crazy Heart'
Labels: bibliomancy, richard mavis, seedy stories posted by John McGrath @ 2: 48 AM Seedy Stories
The presence of a Punch show in such scenes seemed to represent the seedy, unprosperous life that was too often the lot of Punchmen and their lower class audiences.
It has a concealed door, falsely mysterious, imitation of a hotel hallway, phantom of the "lush" Duk Duk Ranch where Quilty takes Lolita and has her perform "filthy, fancy" deeds; through the door is a seedy lounge, upholstered in burgundy velvet, where a wheezing electric system is triggered whenever a client enters, and a theater curtain is raised, revealing a mirrored wall. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)
Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front - folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waist-coats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. Silas Marner (1885)
Bugsy," as the Hollywood crowd were now calling Benjy due to their feeling he was a bit bats galore in the old belfy, had to, due a couple of hits in 1937--one of whom was his own father-in-law, the famous mob hitman Whitey Krakow--flee L.A. for safety's sake, and it was while fleeing L.A. that Bugsy stopped in seedy Las Vegas to take a piss. Who Are You? #2
Labels: bibliomancy, richard mavis, seedy stories posted by John McGrath @ 2: 48 AM Seedy Stories
This explains why, when Natalia walks into that seedy bar in chapter 5 of The Tiger's Wife, the town lushes are all drinking beer -- rakija is usually drunk at home. Anna King: Drinking Rakija In The Tiger's Wife and Los Angeles
All ideas are pretty seedy, aren't they?
The curtains were drawn and the room was dark like some seedy boudoir. THE EXECUTION
The inferior dope produced by criminal organizations typically contains stems, leaves and seedy buds and the rankest herb is combined with filler and pressed into bricks. Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
There aren't many homes that make you feel you're both the tightly corseted heroine of a romantic costume drama and a lady of the night about to embark on a seedy affair.
For the trouble of saving your life, he sets you up in an abandoned warehouse in a seedy burg known as Carcer City.
Think Southern California, and you think surfers, seedy motels, and gas-guzzling cars.
The Polish part is finally and truly Polish; the sliver of East Prussia given to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic is now a part of independent Lithuania; the rest of the old Soviet slice is a seedy Russian exclave surrounded by the European Union. Eastern Reproaches
Clearly this is television aimed at rich people, so they can have a vicariously tingly peek into the seedy underworld of carjacking.
The narrative of Gatsby's downfall poignantly exposes the seedy underbelly of the American dream.
Their general tenants are speculative Jew clothesmen who have bought them "vorth the monish" (at tenth hand), seedy chamber counsel, or still more seedy collectors of rents. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841
A few years ago I was sitting with a friend in a seedy German restaurant off Tenth Avenue in New York drinking giant steins of beer and talking about his job in investor relations for a Fortune 500 company.
This anonymous, seedy stretch of the 10th arrondissement does not yet feature on the tourist track.
If you discounted his seedy clothes and his rustic surroundings, he was quite a striking man, really. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
Parts of Soho have a slightly seedy reputation, but we decided that being shown around responsibly by two adults would effectively remove the possibility of the two scallywags getting into mischief.
Sun and Shadow took place in seedy, snow-ridden Stockholm (though there is a sunny Spanish interlude); its follow-up, Never End, was set in the intense heat of the Swedish holiday season. Sunday Salon: heat and cold
He paused, apparently expecting Aidan to explain his own surprising presence at such a seedy and out-of-the-way establishment. Earl of Durkness
True, we're located in a dilapidated strip mall in a seedy part of town, but people have cars, don't they?
Frank ran dodgy errands for a seedy local villain.

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