Adjective
- 1. seamy, seamed (vs. seamless)
- usage: showing a seam
- 2. seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid, disreputable (vs. reputable)
- usage: 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"
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