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They walked through a small foyer and into a comfortably if somewhat seedily furnished living room.

The staging is stark and as seedily theatrical as it should be.

The Indians have finally lost their post-independence idealism and are now seedily corrupt.

Looking at the seedily elegant banker, Jason realized it was the most unstartling thing he had said.

Both were dressed rather seedily, and the white was dressed very seedily.

Bourne got out of the taxi in front of the seedily elegant hotel in Montparnasse.

Anthony O’Donnell’s seedily forlorn “Father” stands accused by locals of fiddling with a poor, neglected kid who lives near his farm.

Gradually, the Metro came to represent the obscure id - authentic, workaday, but seedily intriguing - beneath the glamorous geometry of the city's boulevards.

The dank streets look seedily Victorian and his parents (Nick Upton and Deborah Collard) have the unhealthy appearance of people whose walls are always damp.

One is a floating casino, the gaudy, red-carpeted Naga, built in a converted oil tanker and anchored just behind the newly renovated and seedily luxurious Sofitel Cambodiana Hotel.

That's because the so-called core meaning often shifts: core is now most often an adjective defined as "having the essential part," pushing ahead of a noun meaning "the center of a fruit," which Oxford seedily lists first.

RECONSTRUCTED IN A STUDIO in London's East End, Soho's Colony Room club looks seedily authentic.

But he was dressed as seedily as every other addict in the park (the dealers fancied expensive leather, of course) and he had not shaved or bathed in preparation for the stakeout, and he tried to appear needy if not desperate.

Today it is a seedily elegant old dowager, the wood and marble of its public rooms restored, cavernous restaurant looking much as it must have when its wealthy clients from St. Louis, Kansas City and Little Rock gathered to take the waters.

And as for the female elementwell, an emaciated young model named Twiggy (as Yeoman Sand) and a seedily voluptuous Jayne Mansfield (as Communications Lieutenant Impura) eye-poppingly contrasted each other like the ship's ludicrous "neutron-"

Paddy Power goes down the drunken uncle voiceover route popularised by Absolute Radio, whose wacky post-ironic station idents tell you that you are listening to Absolute Radio every four seconds or so, while Betfair seedily taunts you with marginally better odds.

Some say the houses would severely tax an extremely fragile ecosystem and would destroy a unique way of life; others contend that the island has become seedily unique and badly needs an economic infusion to offset declining oyster catches and headlong flight to the mainland by young people.

The performers most at ease in Mr. Pinter's plays are those who freely abandon the search for a simple key and are serenely at ease with the elusive meanings in the writing, who can inhabit the abstract or seedily specific worlds he conjures without any sense of artifice.