"seedy" in the adjective sense

1. seedy

full of seeds

"as seedy as a fig"

2. scruffy, seedy

shabby and untidy

"a surge of ragged scruffy children"

"he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain

3. ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

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"

4. seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

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"

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