How to Use seedy in a Sentence

seedy

adjective
  • The seedy flat in the Mission with a room to crash in — that’s gone.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Whole wheat or sourdough work too, but anything too seedy or crusty will mess with the vibe.
    Smitha Menon, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My personal favorite for an any-time snack: on a seedy slice of toast with a swoosh of butter.
    Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Reeves' version of Gotham City is seedy, dark, and rain-soaked, the sun only visible at dusk.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The production is faithful to the seedy Berlin aesthetic of the show’s locale.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • His meetings take him all over the city and into varied, seedy settings.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
  • Well made period drama taking you behind the curtain of both the con and the seedy souls of those putting one over on us.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Lux isn't the only one keeping secrets, and the introduction of a seedy stranger sends things off the rails as the island starts to close in.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Try the Farm to Loaf bundle, which includes the dense and seedy Danish rye loaf that’s been my breakfast most mornings this week.
    Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2019
  • And the new ballpark totally revived the seedy area of downtown south of Broadway in the East Village.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Or bad guys, in this case featuring a murder most foul in the notoriously seedy demimonde of Upper West Side co-ops.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024

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