Associations to the word «Seedy»

Wiktionary

SEEDY, adjective. Disreputable, run-down, sleazy.
SEEDY, adjective. Full of seeds.
SEEDY, adjective. Untidy; unkempt
SEEDY, adjective. Infirm; gone to seed.
SEEDY, adjective. Suffering the effects of a hangover
SEEDY, adjective. (colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
SEEDY TOE, noun. An affliction of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.

Dictionary definition

SEEDY, adjective. Full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig".
SEEDY, adjective. Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain.
SEEDY, adjective. 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".
SEEDY, adjective. 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".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.