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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 seedy /ˈsidi/
 (a.)多種子的,結籽的,帶有草香的,破爛的,骯髒的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Seed·y a. [Compar. Seedier superl. Seediest.]
 1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
 2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
 3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
    Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.
 Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 seedy
      adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
      2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
         was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
         [syn: scruffy]
      3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
         life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
         storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly;
         "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very
         nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
         intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, sleazy, sordid,
         squalid]
      4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: debilitated,
          enfeebled, infirm]
      [also: seediest, seedier]