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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
     1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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     2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
        weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of


        French brandy.
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     3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
        miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
        he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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              Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
              say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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     {Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
        cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
        laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seedy
       adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
       2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
          was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
          [syn: {scruffy}]
       3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
          life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
          storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly;
          "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very
          nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
          intrigue and betrayal" [syn: {seamy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
          {squalid}]
       4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {debilitated},
           {enfeebled}, {infirm}]
       [also: {seediest}, {seedier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "seedy":
     Mickey Mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat-up, bedraggled, below par,
     blowzy, broken-down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse,
     common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit,
     deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down, down-at-heel,
     down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
     drooping, droopy, enervated, enfeebled, faded, fagged, faint,
     fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint,
     feeling something terrible, flagging, footsore, fourth-class,
     frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes,
     good and tired, grubby, holey, ill, in danger, in rags, in shreds,
     in tatters, indisposed, inferior, informal, irregular, jaded,
     laid low, languid, loose, low-class, low-grade, low-quality,
     low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, messy, mortally ill, mussy,
     neglected, negligent, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts,
     overgrown, paltry, patchy, poky, poor, poorly, punk, ragged,
     raggedy, ratty, ready to drop, rocky, ruinous, run ragged,
     run-down, sagging, scraggly, scruffy, second-best, second-class,
     shabby, shoddy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, slack,
     slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid,
     squalid, tacky, taken ill, tattered, tatty, third-class,
     third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn,
     under the weather, unkempt, unneat, unrefreshed, unrestored,
     unsightly, untidy, unwell, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened,
     wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
     weary-worn, wilted, wilting, worn, worn out, worn-down
  
  

















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