Seedy
['siːdɪ] or ['sidi]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Examples
- Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ah, Ramsey--a precious seedy-looking customer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am a seedy old fellow, said the Vicar, rising, pushing his chair away and looking down at himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I thought he looked seedy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Shelley