seediness
- n a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- As for "the seediness of power (prostitutes in the hotel bar, the extravagant wealth, the averted gazes)," Vegas, anyone? Eliot Spitzer? South Florida and the feudal gated .
- Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality.
- It was perhaps a infelicitous metaphor, given both the seediness of Las Vegas and the ridiculous excess of the party itself.