Seamy \Seam"y\, a.
Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. "Many a
seamy scar." --Burns.
[1913 Webster]
Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
seamy
adj : morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos";
"sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle
Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under
his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid
atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seedy, sleazy,
sordid, squalid]
[also: seamiest, seamier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "seamy":
abhorrent, contemptible, dark, degenerate, degraded, depraved,
derogatory, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, distasteful,
foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, low, nasty,
notorious, odious, repellent, repulsive, rotten, scurvy, shady,
shameful, sordid, squalid, ugly, unattractive, unpalatable,
unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, unseemly, unwholesome,
vile
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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