0 looking dirty or in bad condition and likely to be involved in dishonest or illegal activities: --
1 in bad condition, esp. because not cared for and therefore unattractive: --
If we calculate the duty by reference to the rating value, it is a direct incentive to the creation of small, seedy clubs.
I would not care to think how much it has cost me in telephone calls to funny and seedy chatlines in recent years.
He was in his garage when a seedy-looking individual drove up and said he was a commercial traveller.
At this point we enter the seedy world of accountancy massage parlours, where figures are pummelled and distorted into unrealistic shapes.
I had not thought of it as hole-in-the-corner or seedy.
Was the acquisition and demolition of all the seedy tenements round about included?
It is that of a man earning £25 a week and living with his wife and child in two poor, seedy furnished rooms.
One heavily pregnant woman was forced to pay £50 late at night, and another was forced to seek a bank till in that self-same seedy area.
