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Neither looking good nor feeling well (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

seedy

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'well' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.

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(Other definitions for seedy that I've seen before include "Unseemly" , "Off-colour" , "sickly" , "Unpleasant" , "Raspberry jam might be" .)

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