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Seediness

noun
1.
A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.  Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness, sleaziness.






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"Seediness" Quotes from Famous Books



... priest behind an altar. "Have some more, gents?" he inquired of the two sorry figures before him. The little yellow man accepted with a swift gesture, but the youth shook his head and went out, following a man whose wondrous seediness promised that he would have a knowledge of ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... roadside railway station at the end of their journey, and they were already joyous and alert. They and their belongings were bundled into the "trap" (how many misfits are covered by the word!) and driven through a tree-arched lane. M. could extract something even from the autumnal seediness of the hedgerows, affirming that they were for all the world like a theatre when the holland coverings are on. S. exclaimed with surprise as a squirrel ran across the track, telling M. that this ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior



Words linked to "Seediness" :   inelegance, manginess, raggedness, seedy



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