Sentence examples for seedy things from inspiring English sources
"When you're working hard at sea at fifteen, and you go drink a beer ashore in some foreign country, you see some seedy things.
But when trouble came, he met it with truthfulness and humour, and was rewarded with not just the support of fans but an absence of the tawdriness that usually clings to stars who've been caught doing seedy things.
"If adding both oats and seedy things, make sure you increase the buttermilk to one-and-a-half cups to compensate," she says.
Nighy curls his thin lips; Ifans does his seedy thing.
("He gave her fake tits — Thank you, Mister!") He described his plans for the following weekend: a day hunting wild boar in a forest on the city's outskirts, then a "sex party" (which should never be said without a German accent) at an acquaintance's apartment, where he'd arrive with one woman but pair up with others ("It's a seedy thing"), and, finally, perhaps, just before Sunday dawn, Berghain.
The German response to Pop art, Capitalist Realism, which Richter participated in, savored things seedy and sad in the image bank of popular culture — it was brilliant but sepulchral, about loss.
Get Shorty makes John Travolta a little too cool (in that weird John Travolta way that really hasn't aged well), while Tarantino predictably plays up the seedy side of things in Jackie Brown.
On the seedier side of things, that means a lot of cronyism, nepotism, crass networking, and high-school cliquishness masquerading as aesthetic gestalt; on the less seedy side of things, that means a lot of cronyism, nepotism, crass networking, and high-school cliquishness masquerading as aesthetic gestalt with, somewhere in the bargain, some pretty amazing poetry to boot.
I'd heard the stories about the place: of seedy drunks doing terrible things in the booths and of on-leave army guys starting brawls.
It's a scathing and witty musical play which makes it clear that the young female contenders' actual talent is the last thing the seedy club MC is interested in.
