More run-down and shabby

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.