Day 1,994: seedy, unsavoury, quell

Considering gambling’s seedy, unsavoury reputation, it is tempting to write all this off as unhealthy and dangerous.

The gambling industry itself could do more to quell fears about its practices.

America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared

Artwork of the day 
Quellnymphe
Antoine_Watteau
Date: 1708
Style: Rococo
Genre: mythological painting

Word of the day 
seedy: looking dirty or in bad condition and likely to be involved in dishonest or illegal activities:
unsavoury: unpleasant, or morally offensive:
quell: to stop something, especially by using force

Quote of the day
“Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.”

― Hunter S. Thompson