Seedy
['siːdɪ] or ['sidi]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
(superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
(superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.
編輯:韦斯利
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [Colloquial.] [1]. Old (as garments), worn, faded, shabby.[2]. Poor, needy, destitute, indigent, distressed, penniless, pinched, out of money, short of money, out of pocket, out of cash, out at the elbows, in need, in want, in distress.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ah, Ramsey--a precious seedy-looking customer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I am a seedy old fellow, said the Vicar, rising, pushing his chair away and looking down at himself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I thought he looked seedy. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
手打:谢莉