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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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

seamy
    adj 1: showing a seam
    2: 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: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid,
       squalid]