Crossword clues for seediness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seediness \Seed`i*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a
state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.]
--G. Eliot.
What is called seediness, after a debauch, is a plain
proof that nature has been outraged.
--J. S.
Blackie.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being seedy (unkempt). 2 The property of being seedy (full of seeds).
WordNet
n. a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing [syn: shabbiness, manginess]
Usage examples of "seediness".
Short periods of affluence and then back to seediness and shabbiness once more.
He was beginning to look like a remittance man, though, with some success, he tried to melt into the people around him, and look like the other men staying in this pension, dressed with spruce seediness, as they were, nervously alert, as they were, and even a plexiglas collar, as they wore.
Despite a concerted effort at florid respectability, there is a seediness about BAGBY that goes beyond his overtight clothes: shrewd, pompous, ingratiating by turns, he is constantly eyeing his man and the main chance without missing any of the minor ones by the way.
As he stood there, gazing into the middle distance, an individual of dishevelled aspect sidled up, a vagrant of almost the maximum seediness, from whose midriff there protruded a trayful of a strange welter of collar-studs, shoe-laces, rubber rings, buttonhooks, and dying roosters.