seedy

/'si:di/
Adjective
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. shabby and untidy
    • a surge of ragged scruffy children
    • he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin- Mark Twain
  4. full of seeds
    • as seedy as a fig

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A man avoids the seedy part of town.