Crossword clues for seediest
seediest
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-superlativeseedy)
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 "seediest".
Her plan had worked, and now she was walking into possibly the seediest tavern in all of Cliffside.
Had he sunk that low, that even the seediest cockroach-ridden bum in the gutter could snipe at him, talk up to him, see his sad and sorry state?
A few minutes after Thyrza and her companions had entered, a youth of the seediest appearance struck introductory chords on the piano, and started off at high pressure with a selection of popular melodies.
I do, these manufacturers send their travelers around the most godforsaken little villages, they go crawling to the seediest of little shopkeepers, and do you think they offer them prices different from those they offer us big businessmen?
A profession that often led him into the darkest, seediest corners of humanity.
The addition of a bar, picture window and garish roadside sign depicting a blood-colored man-eater rampant against a green sea was sufficient to transform it into a saloon of the seediest type.
Mild dislike was about the worst even the seediest would-be groper at office parties had caused before now.
He had been forced to comb through the seediest Las Vegas bars, looking for women who needed the twenty or thirty dollars, and were willing to endure the kind of degradation and brutality that he administered.
Unless he was badly mistaken, he was in the worst room of the seediest hotel on Freyar.
Robin thought Gray would gravitate toward the seediest stretch of the boulevard.
When I came to the number I was heading for, it was mounted on the seediest building of all - a dirty, narrow little thing that went upward for at least ten stories.