Meaning & Definition of Seedy in English

1. Full of seeds

• "As seedy as a fig"

2. Shabby and untidy

• "A surge of ragged scruffy children"

• "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- mark twain

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"

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"