Crossword clues for seedier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
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Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.
--Goldsmith.Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativeseedy)
WordNet
adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn: scruffy]
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, sleazy, sordid, squalid]
weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: debilitated, enfeebled, infirm]
See seedy
Usage examples of "seedier".
I could turn up at every course where Humber had a runner, looking seedier and seedier and more and more ready to take any job at all, and one day the lad-hungry stable would take the bait.
An hour later, I was checked into the Airport Ramada, the seedier of the two airport hotels.
Matthew had an appetite for some of the seedier bordellos and gaming halls in the city.
Tal had been to some of the seedier waterfront inns and several of the most luxurious brothels, gambling halls both low and high, and nearly every tavern worth mentioning.
He had spent hours in seedy taverns and seedier brothels, but after two weeks of spreading gold around he had got the information he had needed.
It had originally been called the Vista Encantadora Hotel and had been a retirement home for elderly and senior military officers, ending up as a seedier, cheaper motel called, simply, the Vista.
It had gotten seedier in the fifty intervening years and after taking stock we left.
As he went, the street gradually took on a seedier character, and the number of pedestrians began to dwindle.
Union Station is so grand and elegant that it should be in Paris, not here in the home of cinder block and dark wood veneer At most major railway stations in the world you expect to find the seedier side of life, but not at Union.
From the seedier section of the city they moved into an area where the music of the taverns seemed to fade away, where the buildings wore fresh paint and carved shutters.
The hallway was seedier than he remembered, with its trail of crumpled paper, fast food containers, and cigarette butts.
The poor bastards working the late shift, however, looked seedier than I felt.
With them were a larger number of far seedier individuals who fanned out around the tribunal and politely but firmly ushered the curious out of listening range.