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The word 'seedy' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an informal adjective used to describe something unpleasant or potentially dangerous. For example, "The seedy neighborhood was filled with graffiti and broken windows."
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seedy
adjective
Disreputable, run-down, sleazy.
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00 800 300 200 00; angsana.com 4. Tangier: a city with a new lease of life Louche, laid-back and a bit seedy, Tangier is undergoing something of a transformation into a chic destination, ideal for people who like their Morocco experiences to still have a little edginess.
I later found out that he'd been looking at seedy images of women on the internet and more recently that he'd been visiting escort websites.
The lasting effect of all this is that my brother's long-term partner cannot stand to be with my dad, as she feels his behaviour and attitude has been selfish and unacceptable, while my wife has witnessed the grief that my brother and I have suffered while he was away and has no love for him either, combined with a feeling that his reason for being in Thailand is rather seedy.
It's easy to forget what a weird and seedy place West Berlin was in the 1970s and 1980s.
Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
It's something we see a lot these days in comic books, where everything is bright and pretty on the surface, but our main focus is on the seedy underbelly, which seems even starker as it sits right next to the shiny facade of the entertainment-industrial complex.
It was everything I could have dreamed New York would have been – yellow cabs, people coming out of the subway, the big lights of Broadway and the seedy characters hanging around drinking beer out of brown paper bags.
Despite their rather seedy image, country wines have a long and noble lineage.
He haunted the seedy stretches of east London with copper plates in his pocket and etched away at what he called his "Thames Set".
GÖRLITZER PARK, a patch of grass and concrete, has a seedy air.
For 15 years Ireland's economy grew by 7% or more a year and the results show everywhere: as ugly bungalows, seedy politics, polluted rivers, Polish plumbers and a huge increase in welfare for rich and poor alike.
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