seamy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite showing a seam
  2. adjective satellite morally degraded
    seedy; squalid; sleazy; sordid.
    • 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

WordNet


Seam"y adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913