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 Definition: [n]  a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
 
 Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness
 
 See Also: inelegance, raggedness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Seed`i*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a
state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.] --G. Eliot.

      What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain
      proof that nature has been outraged.     --J. S.
                                               Blackie.

 

 

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