seamy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: seamy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for seamy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seamy adj showing a seam 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" Synonym(s): seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seamy \Seam"y\, a. Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. [bd]Many a seamy scar.[b8] --Burns. Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side. --Sir W. Scott.