The Clue
Down-at-heel (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SEEDY
Tags
Notes
The answer SEEDY is seen frequently, appearing about once every 180 puzzles.
Related Clues
Disreputable
Rundown
Sordid
Squalid
Unkempt
Wretched
Broken-down
Down at the heels
Down-at-the-heels
Far from posh
Far from spiffy
Like a fleabag
Like a flophouse
Like a pomegranate
Out at the elbows
Poorly kept
Run-down
Rundown in appearance
In sorry shape
Like rye, usually
Like skid row
Low-rent, maybe
Not so nice
Not well-kept
Not yet gentrified
Run-down, as a bar
Shabby followers of a bee
Zero-star, say
Definition
SEEDY as an adjective:
1. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
2. (scruffy, seedy) = shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
3. (ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy) = somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
4. (seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid) = 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"