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seamy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seamy \Seam"y\, a. Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them ``Many a seamy scar.'' --Burns. Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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