What's the difference between seedy and visage?

Seedy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
  • (superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
  • (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calculations were based on the contamination of 2310 specimens of citrus fruits, pitted and seedy fruits and vegetables collected in the 1985-86 and 1989 campaigns.
  • (2) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (3) "It is artistic and not dark or seedy," the broadcaster said, while admitting that "in hindsight" the title may have caused problems.
  • (4) Sugiura was believed to have been negotiating a settlement to a territorial dispute in Tokyo's seedy Roppongi district with the Kokusui-kai, a smaller Tokyo-based gang that joined the Yamaguchi-gumi in 2005, just as the latter began extending its influence in the capital and other parts of eastern Japan .
  • (5) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
  • (6) Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
  • (7) He also realised that if Las Vegas's seedy image was changed, it could bring in a new clientele.
  • (8) The character grew out of a sketch called "Seedy Boss" that Gervais's long-time writing partner, Stephen Merchant, shot for his BBC training course.
  • (9) But following a murder and two high-profile arson attacks in the past month, the Kent town has been the subject of a series of lurid headlines that suggest it may take more than a cultural revolution for Margate to escape its seedy past.
  • (10) Both brothers said they wanted to put the seedy deals of the Blair-Brown era behind them.
  • (11) There are networks of mateship that become pretty seedy, they are about influence peddling and become more dangerous, he says.
  • (12) The Gare du Midi neighbourhood is seen by many as a seedy area where you don’t want to hang around if you can help it (and with a Eurostar ticket you can easily hop on a train to the smartly renovated Central Station).
  • (13) "This seedy bid would shame a banana republic," Watson said, while Labour frontbencher Ivan Lewis asked why Hunt had had "so little to say on the phone hacking scandal".
  • (14) The story begins in 1960 when the 43-year-old Anthony Burgess returned from Singapore to find the England he'd left in the late Forties transformed into an ugly divided country where the last seedy Teds prowled the streets of London and race riots had erupted in our big cities.
  • (15) Ten minutes walk from Frankfurt's main railway station, through a warren of sex shops and seedy gambling dens, two dozen of the most powerful unelected people on the continent gather once a fortnight to try to save Europe from itself.
  • (16) I had always thought of him as seedy – a walking STD in skinny jeans – but he looks surprisingly wholesome: lovely olive skin, Malteser-brown eyes, well-washed, tactile (more knee patting than you’d get off Terry Wogan in his prime).
  • (17) Instead of the seedy anti-democratic gang that plotted against a Labour prime minister, they can claim to be the first line of defence against indiscriminate attacks on the streets of Britain.
  • (18) The more we talk, and the more you listen to his old material, the more he seems less like the righteous Bill Hicks type "lazy" journalists like to compare him to, and more a Charles Bukowski -esque character: a drunken deadbeat throwing out tales from America's seedy underbelly without caring too much what the "message" is.
  • (19) Subjects were then examined and the four quadrants of each breast were rated on a scale of 0 to 3 (0 = normal, fatty tissue, 1 = little seedy bumps or fine nodularity, 2 = discrete nodules or ropy tissue, 3 = confluent areas, hard or soft masses).
  • (20) It has not entirely shaken off its earliest, seedy connotations – but then that’s part of its charm.

Visage


Definition:

  • (n.) The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
  • (v. t.) To face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 5.11pm BST 5.07pm BST 68th over: Sri Lanka 251-9 (Herath 10, Pradeep 11) Plunkett sends one towards Herath's visage, and he fidgets it down without looking happy in the process, before Pradeep guides one over the slips and gets two.
  • (2) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
  • (3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
  • (4) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
  • (5) With all free tickets to the event snapped up, Modi fans, many clad in commemorative T-shirts bearing the prime minister’s visage, overflowed into viewing areas outside the stadium, among them credit analyst Amrita Burman.
  • (6) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
  • (7) To make the accompanying video for Ashes to Ashes , he went to the Blitz club in London and recruited several leading lights from the New Romantic movement, a collection of bands including Visage and Spandau Ballet, who owed much of their inspiration to Bowie.
  • (8) In the not-quite-35 years since then, a lot has changed on screen: Rey serves as far more than a device to move the plot along, or a smiling visage to congratulate the movie’s two heroes.
  • (9) The evidence was written in the visage of that US state department spokesman who was told of the new appointment before he had time to adjust his facial muscles.
  • (10) Over in commercial radio land, Bauer’s Absolute 80s, home to Visage, Kim Wilde and Blondie, has been doing well, too.
  • (11) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
  • (12) Instead of Assad's blue-eyed visage, the Free Syrian flag was painted on a barrier.
  • (13) Abbott doesn't present that visage much these days.
  • (14) The female visages of Sacagawea and Susan B Anthony have been relegated to dollar coins no one gives two cents about.
  • (15) Despite his boyish visage and compact frame, he carries himself with the air of a triumphant underdog.
  • (16) The impulse crosses political divisions: the libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes also uses the name, and the logo on his site resembles the V for Vendetta visage .
  • (17) With polarized microscopy, cholesteric anisotrophs of sera were unique in composition and iridescent visage for each aflatoxin level regime.
  • (18) Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news.
  • (19) His scowling visage during a Golden Globes ceremony prompted an internet meme comparing him to Grumpy Cat .
  • (20) The two works perfectly depict the starkly contrasting faces of Paris in the mid-19th century, a dual visage presented to a British public this weekend with the Manet Portraying Life exhibition that opened at the Royal Academy, and the Hollywood version of Les Misérables released earlier this month.