seediness
81seedy — (adj.) mid 15c., fruitful, abundant, from SEED (Cf. seed) (n.) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning shabby is from 1739, probably in reference to the appearance of a flowering plant that has run to seed. Related: Seediness …
82scuzz — n 1. American dirt, seediness, anything distasteful. The word has been widely used since the late 1960s and probably postdates the adjective form scuzzy. The word had been picked up by some British speakers by the 1980s. ► Foul mouthed critics… …
83tack — n 1. squalor, shabbiness, seediness, bad taste. A back formation from the earlier Americanism, tacky. Tackiness is an alternative noun form. (Very often tacki ness refers to the quality, tack to the evidence thereof.) 2. British cannabis. A term… …
84seaminess — n. unpleasantness, disagreeableness; seediness, sordidness …
85New American Poetry, 1945-1960, The — Donald Allen, ed. (1960) This landmark anthology, edited by Donald M(erriam) Allen (1912–2004), introduced Beat poets and other avant garde post–World War II poets to a wide reading audience on its publication by Grove Press in 1960. It… …
86seedy — adjective (seedier, seediest) 1》 sordid or squalid. 2》 dated unwell. Derivatives seedily adverb seediness noun …
87seedy — adjective informal 1 a seedy person or place looks dirty or poor, and is often involved in or connected with illegal, immoral, or dishonest activities: a bunch of seedy characters 2 old fashioned informal feeling slightly ill seediness noun (U)… …
88squalor — noun they lived in squalor Syn: dirt, filth, grubbiness, grime, muck, foulness, vileness, poverty, wretchedness, meanness, seediness, shabbiness, sordidness, sleaziness, neglect, decay, dilapidation; informal scruffiness, crumminess …
89baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
90mendicancy — n beggary, mendicity, pauperism, pau perage; alms begging, Inf. panhandling, scrounging, Inf. bumming; poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniosity, neediness; Inf. hardupness, Queer Street, skid row; insolvency,… …
