seediness

It felt to me like a seediness had become a regular part of the day.

He needed a shave, too, which added to his air of seediness.

The bond with guns shared some of that same seediness.

The museum's move downtown in 1991 was considered controversial because of the area's seediness.

"Scoring" cigarettes has taken on all the seediness of a street drug deal.

"The seediness of it would be tough to recreate," he said.

He wrote about how 'seediness has a very deep appeal.

The viewer is left with a feeling of seediness and despair, Harris wrote.

She loved it here, with its combination of glitz and seediness.

"We like the seediness of the neighborhood," she said.

Where they all agreed, though, was in describing the affair as the height of seediness.

The goal, he said, was to create "a metaphor for the glamour and seediness of the period."

Once a center of the theater industry, it settled into seediness as television displaced live entertainment.

No wonder English style remains so popular: a slight seediness becomes it.

The previous summer Jack had learned that the people here took a perverse pride in the place's seediness.

There was a calculated seediness about the block where he was to stay.

Institutional gray and seediness set this stage as it should be set.

Seediness, kept at arm's length for a month, comes a bit too close for comfort now.

"I love the mystery, the suspense, the illusion of seediness.

Unless it's done very subtly, color may take away some of the impact of that seediness.

That helped impart a seediness to its image as a poor and ill-tended place.

The restoration work reversed the hotel's trend toward seediness.

Different not just from the others in that first hour, with their greed, seediness, and sycophancy, nor simply because she was so much younger.

The famous seediness was discovered early and jealously tended.

The dirt emphasizes the seediness of the imagery.