seedy

seedy
    adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
    2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
       was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn:
       {scruffy}, {seedy}]
    3: 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" [syn: {ailing}, {indisposed},
       {peaked(p)}, {poorly(p)}, {sickly}, {unwell}, {under the
       weather}, {seedy}]
    4: 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" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
       {squalid}]
    

Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
   1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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   2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
      weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
      French brandy.
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   3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
      miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
      he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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            Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
            say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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   {Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
      cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
      laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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154 Moby Thesaurus words for "seedy":
      Mickey Mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat-up, bedraggled, below par,
      blowzy, broken-down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse,
      common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit,
      deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down, down-at-heel,
      down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
      drooping, droopy, enervated, enfeebled, faded, fagged, faint,
      fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint,
      feeling something terrible, flagging, footsore, fourth-class,
      frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes,
      good and tired, grubby, holey, ill, in danger, in rags, in shreds,
      in tatters, indisposed, inferior, informal, irregular, jaded,
      laid low, languid, loose, low-class, low-grade, low-quality,
      low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, messy, mortally ill, mussy,
      neglected, negligent, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts,
      overgrown, paltry, patchy, poky, poor, poorly, punk, ragged,
      raggedy, ratty, ready to drop, rocky, ruinous, run ragged,
      run-down, sagging, scraggly, scruffy, second-best, second-class,
      shabby, shoddy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, slack,
      slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid,
      squalid, tacky, taken ill, tattered, tatty, third-class,
      third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn,
      under the weather, unkempt, unneat, unrefreshed, unrestored,
      unsightly, untidy, unwell, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened,
      wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
      weary-worn, wilted, wilting, worn, worn out, worn-down