英语词汇“seedy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

seedy

/ˈsiːdi

adjective (seedier, seediest)

1Sordid and disreputable: his seedy affair with a soft-porn starlet...

Most of the movie takes place in dark, seedy bars, and for the most part the black level is dark and shadows are well defined, while in other scenes the darker areas appear reddish and indistinct.
One of the most notorious spots for the homeless is Market Street - a seedy section of strip bars, liquor stores and boarded up shops where dozens of junkies, drunks and other street people make the sidewalk their home.
Brothels are usually seedy affairs, tucked discreetly away from churches, town halls and the like (or so somebody we met in a bar once told us).

Synonyms

sordid, disreputable, seamy, sleazy, corrupt, shameful, low, dark, squalid, unwholesome, unsavoury, rough, mean, nasty, unpleasant

1.1Shabby and squalid: an increasingly seedy and dilapidated property...

Athletic and family-oriented (all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult), it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing.
True, we're located in a dilapidated strip mall in a seedy part of town, but people have cars, don't they?
With help from the city, they cleaned up their properties, tore down some of those seedy hotels and landscaped with palm trees.

Synonyms

dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, gone to rack and ruin, in ruins, broken-down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating;

neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, depressed, run down, down at heel, shabby, dingy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid

informal shambly, crummy

British informal grotty

North American informal shacky

Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty

2 dated Unwell: she felt weak and seedy

Derivatives

seedily

/ˈsiːdɪli/ adverb ...

His art, though never exactly sweet, has become more darkly - critics say seedily - erotic as the years have progressed.

seediness

/ˈsiːdɪnəs

/ noun ...

Many of the crimes he investigated were around Deansgate in the 1870s when it was the most dangerous area of the city, infamous for its squalor and seediness, disease and depravity.
At the bar there's loud music and bad boys and girls and a sweet seediness, and nobody's talking about being good, even though the mix of music and humanity brims with a palpable goodness.
A big port and associated seediness do not together a tourist attraction make, but only a few streets away - on the other side of a narrow neck of land - lies Playa de las Canteras.

单词	seedy
释义	seedy /ˈsiːdi / adjective (seedier, seediest) 1Sordid and disreputable: his seedy affair with a soft-porn starlet... Most of the movie takes place in dark, seedy bars, and for the most part the black level is dark and shadows are well defined, while in other scenes the darker areas appear reddish and indistinct. One of the most notorious spots for the homeless is Market Street - a seedy section of strip bars, liquor stores and boarded up shops where dozens of junkies, drunks and other street people make the sidewalk their home. Brothels are usually seedy affairs, tucked discreetly away from churches, town halls and the like (or so somebody we met in a bar once told us). Synonyms sordid, disreputable, seamy, sleazy, corrupt, shameful, low, dark, squalid, unwholesome, unsavoury, rough, mean, nasty, unpleasant 1.1Shabby and squalid: an increasingly seedy and dilapidated property... Athletic and family-oriented (all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult), it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing. True, we're located in a dilapidated strip mall in a seedy part of town, but people have cars, don't they? With help from the city, they cleaned up their properties, tore down some of those seedy hotels and landscaped with palm trees. Synonyms dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, gone to rack and ruin, in ruins, broken-down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating; neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, depressed, run down, down at heel, shabby, dingy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid informal shambly, crummy British informal grotty North American informal shacky Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty 2 dated Unwell: she felt weak and seedy Derivatives seedily /ˈsiːdɪli/ adverb ... His art, though never exactly sweet, has become more darkly - critics say seedily - erotic as the years have progressed. seediness /ˈsiːdɪnəs / noun ... Many of the crimes he investigated were around Deansgate in the 1870s when it was the most dangerous area of the city, infamous for its squalor and seediness, disease and depravity. At the bar there's loud music and bad boys and girls and a sweet seediness, and nobody's talking about being good, even though the mix of music and humanity brims with a palpable goodness. A big port and associated seediness do not together a tourist attraction make, but only a few streets away - on the other side of a narrow neck of land - lies Playa de las Canteras. Rhymes beady, greedy, needy, reedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy
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seedy

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seedily

seediness

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