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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing a seam;

2. morally degraded;
- Example: "a seedy district"
- Example: "the seamy side of life"
- Example: "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"
- Example: "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly
- Example: "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce
- Example: "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
[syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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