Its many mortgage loans are looking increasingly seedy as the British economy turns down.
Moroccan kif, Nepalese ganja and Bolivian marching powder such labels add cosmopolitan glamour to a seedy business.
He went on from Vienna to study in Berlin, and was stimulated by its seedy social life.
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Ruili, the main border-crossing between northern Myanmar and China's province of Yunnan, has become a seedy boomtown.
Once a posh vacation stretch turned seedy and rundown, Hawaii's capital is now enjoying a long overdue renaissance.
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Trying to dispel conceptions that sex shops are small, dark and seedy, Abela's stores look more like warehouses.
Pixadores live in poor suburbs but their preferred target is seedy, downtown Sao Paulo, where visibility is guaranteed.
Newton was hands on about it, too, often himself travelling to seedy underworld bars to track down information.
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As the Android market place becomes home to more seedy programs like TapSnake, it may see more frequent use.
Rosenstein says the defendants also housed some of them in pretty seedy conditions.
Out also went the head of Russia's national oil-pipeline company, Transneft, whose finances have long been a seedy mystery.
As a character, he's a career criminal, hired gun and professional thief, a pulp-fiction prince of America's seedy underworld.
Many gather in the seedy, menacing border village of Tecum Uman, whence they cross the Suchiate river to Mexico.
Broadcaster John Humphrys denounced reality TV as "seedy, cynical and harmful" to society at last year's Edinburgh Television Festival.
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If his life-long philandering recalls the seedy glamour of Maupassant, the women involved are now no more than names.
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"It was just a huge adrenaline rush, " said Mr. Johnson, covered from head to toe in a red, seedy slime.
Popular's North American head, Roberto Herencia, counteracts the sector's seedy image by proudly displaying the Popular name alongside Cash Express.
Miller is more beautiful than Sedgwick but less memorable a pretty girl who is expertly made up to look seedy and exhausted.
Leigh's domain is the seedy bed-sit, the run-down council estate, where stilted conversation, casual violence and loveless sex are the norm.
The album explores seedy tales of drinking, one-night stands, jilted lovers and the sex industry, all illuminated by a nightclub's dingy blacklight.
Until recently, the seedy street was also host to two spy shops.
The seedy warehouse district and the rat-infested weeds on the banks of the Arkansas river have never been exactly a popular spot.
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As I play, I imagine myself like Frank Underwood and suddenly my stint as a virtual congressman includes some seedy and sleazy subtext.
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In the seedy Thai coastal resort town of Pattaya, police questioned owners of bars where underage boys, they said, could be procured for sex.
Mr. SEGELL: Well, the seedy reputation probably began in 1903 when the Vatican declared that the saxophone gave reasonable concern for disgust and scandal.
U.S. bank regulators settled with mortgage lenders over seedy foreclosure practices.
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Sparafucile's inn becomes a seedy strip club out in the desert.
Mr. Loquasto provides the barely 10-minute work with an evocative setting and costumes that frame its incidents as those in a seedy industrial area's red-light district.
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And the area as a whole still relishes its ethnic, multicultural, bohemian, seedy-chic image a hotch potch of quaint antique shops, market stalls and vibrant street life.
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