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seediness

/see-dee/US // ˈsi di //UK // (ˈsiːdɪ) //

籽粒,苗头,籽料,籽粒性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    seed·i·er, seed·i·est.

    • : abounding in seed.
    • : containing many seeds, as a piece of fruit.
    • : gone to seed; bearing seeds.
    • : poorly kept; run-down; shabby.
    • : shabbily dressed; unkempt: a seedy old tramp.
    • : physically run-down; under the weather: He felt a bit seedy after his operation.
    • : somewhat disreputable; degraded: a seedy hotel.

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Examples

  • Even if the site wasn’t “seedy” and offered cancer treatment advice as well as investment advice, there would be a severe lack of identity.

  • Everybody knows the Hollywood pawnshop tropes — the creepy guy smoking behind the counter in a seedy corner store, taking a stolen television off someone’s hands, probably so they can go buy drugs.

  • But beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life.

  • ME3M was like online sex without the sex: seedy, dehumanized, segmented, and awkward—yet often still erotic.

  • For the rest of you, here's a seedy little fact: Men of pretty much any age are mainly attracted to 20-year-olds.

  • Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld.

  • The Boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there.

  • There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.

  • He appears to be seedy, but has been quite hopeless as Sirdar down in the base camp and is without authority.

  • He was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.

  • Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds!'

  • He did not extend his hand, but stood still, in his seedy clothes and his coat buttoned to his chin, to hide his lack of a shirt.