How to Use seedy in a Sentence

seedy

adjective
  • He was wearing a seedy suit.
  • Phillips is far from a seedy creep who draws the ire of everyone around him.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The seedy flat in the Mission with a room to crash in — that’s gone.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But Aubergine didn’t, and doesn’t, have a spartan, seedy, health-food vibe.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Whole wheat or sourdough work too, but anything too seedy or crusty will mess with the vibe.
    — Smitha Menon, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Be sure to check plants every 2 or 3 days and pick fruit when small and less seedy.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The couple dukes it out in a seedy motel parking lot.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • Aleksi was talking to a seedy-looking man in front of a sim-card shop.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • What was Meiko doing in such a seedy area and who would have wanted to shoot him?
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 13 June 2019
  • Some were drawn to the seedy side of Skagway and ran afoul of local law.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • One man carries on with a waitress; the other a seedy drug dealer in a blonde wig.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023
  • And maybe voters will just get fed up with the constant, seedy legal drama.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • His meetings take him all over the city and into varied, seedy settings.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
  • Many horror films go to the depths of dirty, seedy, filthy Gothic horror.
    — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Gone are the Capri and Royale, the seedy motels that were a magnet for crime.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 12 May 2018
  • The slender, curvy fruits of this Italian heirloom are firm and less seedy than many types.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 19 July 2020
  • This seedy bread starts with sprouting rye berries, which Shim soaks, strains, and rinses twice a day for two days.
    — Alex Pastron, Bon Appétit, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Every weekend, the heart of the city is overrun by foreigners in strip joints and seedy bars.
    — Mike Corder, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Day three, three wet and three stools; day four, four wet and four stools; and day five six to eight wet and three to four yellow, seedy stools.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Every morning, the brothers had to walk a seedy stretch in the neighborhood.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Is the New Black, this series is a more comedic take on the seedy world of bounty hunting.
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Not so any more—as the new David Kempinski breathes new life into this once-seedy part of town.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The plans include a shiny new Viper Room; a pale imitation of its seedy self.
    — Edmund Vallance, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The movie is bright and colorful but set against a seedy LA and the adult film industry.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Well made period drama taking you behind the curtain of both the con and the seedy souls of those putting one over on us.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In last night's episode, Betty and Alice go to visit her big bro in this seedy motel.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The seedy glamour of his early work, which brought him fame in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is gone.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
  • These super seedy power cookies are exactly that.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Reeves' version of Gotham City is seedy, dark, and rain-soaked, the sun only visible at dusk.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Tight, close shots of the side streets and seedy alleyways of New York City, also land well.
    — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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