seedy

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

• shabby and untidy
  • a surge of ragged scruffy children
    
  • he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin- Mark Twain
    

• full of seeds
  • as seedy as a fig
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  seamy , sleazy , sordid , squalid , ailing , indisposed , peaked(p) , poorly(p) , sickly , unwell , under the weather , scruffy