Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A weedy character or state: as, a garden remarkable for its weediness.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being weedy
Examples
“Concerning the 'weediness' of A. angustissima, at our 1650 meter site naturally sown seeds do not germinate for a year or so, which indicates a dormant period.”
“As an antithesis, we looked at Van Dyck's paintings of spindly, weak-jawed Charles I who needed to be put on a giant horse in gold armour to disguise his weediness.”
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“One summer, the parish council notified Mr. Mabey that it had received an anonymous complaint about the untidy weediness.”
“And the criteria for weediness can change dramatically with time.”
“And the key to our weediness may be the many ways in which our behavioral genes can vary.”
“Brilliantly, this apparently didn't take place during Primal Scream's authority-baiting XTRMNTR period, but when they were a jangly indie band of extreme weediness.”
“The rest of the garden, the part that is not visible to passersby and their untrained scrutiny of what is pleasing and what is a mess of weediness, has been managed in a new way.”
“Self seeding to the point of weediness, purple leaf and blooming Perilla frutescens is allowed to spread in there.”
“Brennan -- perturbed either by the weediness or the cheekiness of the question -- punted his answer to the White House's special interrogation task force.”
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“Just as Ms. Monk's Mercy succeeds in sounding meditative without being boring, Ms. Eisenberg's most recent album, Trilectic (Tzadik), manages the neat trick of setting the Jewish Marxist critic Walter Benjamin's 1920's Moscow Diary to music without succumbing to grad-school weediness.”
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