词汇 | seediness |
释义 | seediness noun[ U ] uk /ˈsiː.di.nəs/ us /ˈsiː.di.nəs/ the quality of looking dirty or in bad condition and likely to be involved in dishonest or illegal activities: 破旧,褴褛;肮脏;下流 The cinema has a certain seediness left over from when it was a strip club.这家电影院以前是一家脱衣舞俱乐部,现在还有一些之前留下的肮脏痕迹。 See seedy The appeal of casinos is that there's some glamour and some seediness. The blight of unwanted buildings has infected virtually every street, creating an air of seediness. They loved his cool, his on-screen cruelty, his seediness. It seems unable to shake off its image of seaside seediness. Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Examples of seedinessseediness It stops the drift into tattiness and seediness which is becoming a problem in so many of our leading tourist resorts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They can see in their street a decline into seediness and squalor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None the less, it has an inner core of plain seediness which is not a very pleasant environment in which to bring up a young family. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I bet he's into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, but are not allowed to talk about. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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