Athletic and family-oriented, it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing. |
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The bank robber enlists an equally seedy character and, over a bottle of rotgut, the two agree to become partners. |
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This anonymous, seedy stretch of the 10th arrondissement does not yet feature on the tourist track. |
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In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel. |
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Finally, he winds up sporting just a cowboy hat and a smile in a seedy, drug-infested strip club. |
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We are both Scottish and we both do figurative paintings set in a seedy underworld. |
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It boasted a couple of reasonable restaurants, a few basic, low-life hotels, and one or two seedy bars. |
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Nothing for the spin doctors to worry about, but just the sort of seedy little affair that sets a TV critic's heart aflutter. |
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The slavery convictions shed light on a seedy underside of the economy that most people are completely unaware of. |
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The seedy underbelly of what was otherwise a fabulous meal was the pudding. |
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Brothels are usually seedy affairs, tucked discreetly away from churches, town halls and the like. |
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They suddenly had much less time to hang out in seedy bars and undertake wild art projects. |
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Stationed in Boston Father Smith is drawn into the seedy underworld of cockfighting. |
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The simple set is ingeniously transformed from teen bedroom to hotel lobby to seedy bar. |
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Mario then plunges into the seedy underworld of drugs in order to rescue his daughter. |
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Alternative guides can offer exciting opportunities to touch the seedy side of the city. |
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I drank away the fear and excitement in a seedy bar in downtown San Salvador. |
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Anne's eye grew tearful again, as they stepped from the carriage into the somewhat seedy docks of London. |
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Think Southern California, and you think surfers, seedy motels, and gas-guzzling cars. |
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With help from the city, they cleaned up their properties, tore down some of those seedy hotels and landscaped with palm trees. |
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Uncle Vernon had taken a wrong turn and they'd ended up in a pretty seedy area. |
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The narrative of Gatsby's downfall poignantly exposes the seedy underbelly of the American dream. |
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True, we're located in a dilapidated strip mall in a seedy part of town, but people have cars, don't they? |
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Clearly this is television aimed at rich people, so they can have a vicariously tingly peek into the seedy underworld of carjacking. |
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But since this is the final film in a seedy sexploitation shocker trilogy, you know it has to end badly for our insane slayer. |
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Back when Borello first moved to Alberta Street, it was a skid row lined with boarded-up storefronts and seedy bars. |
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Until a few years ago this was a scary place, a district of seedy boarding houses, single-room-occupancy hotels and mechanic's garages. |
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However, it was written to portray the seedy underbelly of society in a slapstick kind of way. |
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The one deals with boxing promoter Turkish working in the seedy world of unsanctioned, illegal bare-knuckle boxing. |
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Blackpool, with its Las Vegas aspirations and seedy seafront reality, is a natural for television drama. |
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Bianchi is at his best when he delivers his seedy, sordid lyrics in a blank, innocent voice. |
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Her family were heartbroken as they watched helplessly as she slipped further into the seedy world of drugs and vice. |
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For the trouble of saving your life, he sets you up in an abandoned warehouse in a seedy burg known as Carcer City. |
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It was the seedy part of town that hides behind a modern estate that has been cleverly built in front of it as camouflage. |
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The pool hall was full of seedy characters as Sabrina sunk a red ball into the corner pocket, slamming two more in on rebound. |
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Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater. |
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We went to a couple more of these seedy places savouring the sour gritty horridness of it all and then eventually went home. |
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The new owners removed the seedy back room and were contemplating doing away with the second floor cocktail lounge. |
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But that may not be beneficial if his primary mate cuckolds him as soon as he starts to look seedy and worn out. |
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I went to the odd strip club in my younger days and found them seedy and not much fun. |
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Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too. |
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This is what I think is a seedy pub down the road from me, but they say is now an inexpensive gastropub. |
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Once dependably seedy, it has been transformed by the forces of gentrification. |
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All this smacks more of a seedy circulation battle than a genuine attempt to help. |
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So I got them to move me into a little hotel in Soho, the seedy area of New York. |
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Next comes up a pair of elastic sides, thin and seedy, with the sole worn out, and dusted red. |
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Rather disarmingly, his simple answer was that he loves it here, and prefers a back room in a seedy pub to a Broadway opening. |
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It was hired to get hold of the evidence that was needed to justify a judgment already made, like a seedy gumshoe. |
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He wandered the seedy areas with his eyes wide open and his camera at the ready. |
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Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception. |
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However, up until very recently, your average karaoke bar was a frightfully seedy affair. |
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She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side. |
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Namie introduced her to the seedy underworld, but not the yakuza one, that being a rich teenager in Tokyo had to offer. |
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When not losing money in seedy gambling dens or making wisecracks about chaos theory, he's shooting heroin. |
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May, who lives in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, has for years conducted an illicit affair with a rodeo cowboy named Eddie. |
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There are tens of thousands of people in this province addicted to the machines, which are to be found in almost every seedy bar in Montreal and elsewhere. |
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April must endure a comedy of errors, with her boyfriend, as they attempt perhaps the first meal ever to have been cooked in their seedy love nest. |
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No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines. |
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Yesterday I went into the Used DVD Emporium, a seedy hole in the wall bespeaking a shadily acquired inventory of hot items for your viewing pleasure. |
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Christine Pelisek on the challenges of rooting out the disease in seedy skid row. |
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The Boston mobster was found guilty, but the seedy relationship between cops and informants lives on. |
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The deuteragonist is a rather seedy individual who actually invented the hominids and is now on the run while trying to find a way to destroy his creation. |
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Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue. |
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But today seedy glamour is being replaced by the dim light of computer screens and the unhealthy pallor of those who stare into them for most of their waking hours. |
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Meanwhile, Ona is discovering the seedy underside of her workplace. |
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They were a bit more seedy and sleazy, which was what I liked. |
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Thus exercise, a new skill and a decent night's sleep and productive Thursday can replace overindulgence and a somewhat seedy and slothful Thursday. |
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The presence of a Punch show in such scenes seemed to represent the seedy, unprosperous life that was too often the lot of Punchmen and their lower class audiences. |
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To support herself in America she's been an exotic dancer, dancing on the inside of the seedy underlife that New York City seems to be founded on. |
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The last time we were together was at a seedy bar in Jerusalem. |
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Where you once safely drove around the dodgy streets of seedy inner-city suburbs, you're now confined to relying on your alertness and stealth to ensure safe passage. |
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But beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life. |
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The boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there. |
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A mammoth serving of apple-and-quince crisp was less successful, as was a chalky semifreddo made with mealy corn cakes and a mash of seedy huckleberries. |
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Yuzu is really seedy, and has very little juice to squeeze out. |
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Cyril works as a co-bouncer and occasional singer in a seedy niterie, the Blue Cockatoo Club, owned by the cigar-puffing Colwyn Stanley, a former bed-mate of Cyril's mother. |
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The backdrop is a seedy, exciting and evocative Auckland, with characters ranging from gang members, wealthy and elite crims, concert pianists, farmers, hippies and neo-Nazis. |
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When the vice squad raided his home they found 735 seedy films. |
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He was in a daze but had enough sense to lie low for a bit and so he registered at a seedy hotel in that part of town, where he hoped no-one would come looking for him. |
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After snagging a car from Duncan, an obnoxiously rich student, AJ and Keith make haste for a seedy part of the city in search of a lady of the night. |
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There aren't many homes that make you feel you're both the tightly corseted heroine of a romantic costume drama and a lady of the night about to embark on a seedy affair. |
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But this was going way beyond the seedy frisson of virtual voyeurism. |
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Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld. |
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The unfortunate party members, staying in seedy bed-and-breakfasts on shoestring budgets, are reduced to scoffing free booze and vol-au-vents at corporate receptions. |
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And this album clearly recalls the band's original, vaguely seedy electropop sound, with contemporary beat collages and nouveau sheen giving it a breath of new life. |
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Down the other end of the spectrum, however, things get distinctly seedy. |
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The film, though set during the English Civil War, ignores conflicts between Cavaliers and Roundheads to dwell on the seedy lawlessness sown by the war. |
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Not allowed to blah blah blah rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb. Just what I don't need when I'm feeling kind of seedy. |
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With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today. |
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He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him. |
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A FORMER British air defence expert has been murdered in a seedy rooming house in central Bangkok. |
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It is a seedy downtown Detroit place, near Wayne State University. |
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If a pregnant woman feels slightly seedy in Osh City, she is put on c-section. |
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Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy. |
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When tie had gotten a steroid prescription then, the doctor's office had been seedy and the doctor himself had smelled of Wild Turkey. |
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How else to explain the seedy tourist trap that has grown around the lie that is the most northerly place in Britain? |
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She lamented the rising rents that naturally occur whenever a seedy area of a city begins to gentrify, forcing out some of the mom-and-pop shops. |
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It was meant to be a cheap, pounds 15,000 skinflick that would be seen by just a few mac-wearing men in seedy cinemas. |
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Vice City is... a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills. |
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Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see. |
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Thanks to the power of television, the games of poker have emerged from their seedy backroom origins to the elegance of multimillion dollar hotels and tournaments. |
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The brutalisation of women and prostitution go hand in hand and victims of this seedy trade are constantly under threat from greedy pimps and violent clients. |
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