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Meaning of seedy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  seedy
      adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
      2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
         was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn:
         {scruffy}, {seedy}]
      3: 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" [syn: {ailing}, {indisposed},
         {peaked(p)}, {poorly(p)}, {sickly}, {unwell}, {under the
         weather}, {seedy}]
      4: 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" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
         {squalid}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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