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: seedy , sleazy , sordid , squalid ]

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