seediness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing

From seedy + -ness.

A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness. — The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The disreputable cart, the lifeless, blind old pacer, the home-made harness, the seediness of it all--the pathos. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore
We must however admit--for the truth cannot be blinked in this respect--that there was a certain air of seediness about both the captain and Mr. Frank Curtis, which neither the bullying insolence of the former nor the impertinent self-sufficiency of the latter could altogether throw into the shade. — The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4, George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

shabbiness, manginess, sleaziness

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