Seamy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]
       [also: {seamiest}, {seamier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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