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seedy - Dictionary definition and meaning for seedy

SEEDY

(adj.) full of seeds
"as seedy as a fig"
(adj.) morally degraded
"a seedy district", "the seamy side of life", "sleazy characters hanging around casinos", "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls", "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils", "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
synonyms : seamy , sleazy , sordid , squalid
(adj.) 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"
synonyms : ailing , indisposed , peaked , poorly , sickly , under the weather , unwell
(adj.) shabby and untidy
"a surge of ragged scruffy children", "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"
synonyms : scruffy

Mnemonics for seedy

(Tag: ) the original seed the plant grows out of is right at the bottom in the ground.. thats what seedy means.. to lower or run down some one..
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(Tag: English) seedy~bidi : one who smokes bidi (gen. workers) are shabby and untidy and they are morally degraded (generally rowdy by nature + smoking is not good :no offence plz). You can also think of "beedi jalaiyi le",morally degraded song
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(Tag: slang) Seedy can be thought of as seeds i.e balls(testacles) of a person which is vulgar..
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(Tag: ) SEEDY and SHADY which are similar in sound refer to a disreputable, dishonest person.
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