Sentence examples for seedy reputation from inspiring English sources

"At that time, Hollywood definitely had a seedy reputation".

A bubbling bouillabaisse of Mediterranean cultures, France's second largest city has long suffered from its seedy reputation as a centre of drug-related violence.

It enjoyed a certain seedy reputation -- to describe someone as a "Newbuil girl" or "Newbuil guy" still amounts to an insult.

Love hotels have pretty well shed the seedy reputation they gained in the 1970's as a place where businessmen met with prostitutes.

11 30 p.m. 4. LATE NIGHTS, LONG STREETS In the past few years, the area known as Langgatorna, or the Long Streets, has shed its seedy reputation and become an alternative night-life destination.

Gone is its seedy reputation as a playground for young adults; instead the capital of the Costa del Sol has been revived as a cultural destination with an exciting culinary scene that's bowling over both locals and visitors.

The white paper screens in his sumptuous home near Mt. Fuji were splattered with what one weekly magazine called a "shower of blood". Kashiwagi, 54, left behind an ex-geisha wife and three children, a seedy reputation--and gambling debts in Europe and the United States estimated at $19 million.

MySpace has a seedier reputation than its rival Facebook, but that only makes it more alluring.

His firm was aware of the company's seedier reputation with sexting, but the partners "saw the bigger picture" for the company's potential foothold in the world of social media.

It is also possible that over time, Snapchat, VidBurn and Facebook Poke will become warped by their own versions of success theater, or lose steam if they gain seedier reputations.

He wants neon to shed its seedy, backstreet reputation, and to be appreciated as an art form.