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Meaning of SEAMY

Pronunciation:  'seemee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [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"
 
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 Synonyms: disreputable, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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