seedy
/ˈsiːdi/ adjective C2- Containing or full of seeds. · Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
- Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.
- Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
- Shabby, run-down, possibly connected with bad, dishonest or illegal activities, somewhat disreputable.
- Untidy, unkempt. · His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
- Infirm, unwell, gone to seed. · With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
- Suffering the effects of a hangover. · After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.
Comparative seedier · Superlative seediest
From the library
The same afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew pedlar, who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a slip-shod elderly woman.
He was dressed in the seedy frockcoat of the book merchant, but the rest of that individual lay in a pile of white hair and old books upon the table.
He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.
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