The Clue
Most threadbare (8 letter answer)
The Answer
SEEDIEST
Tags
Notes
The answer SEEDIEST is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2400 puzzles.
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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"