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Seamy

//ˈsiːmi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Sordid, squalid or corrupt.

    "Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life's wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71."

  2. 2
    Having or showing a seam.

    "1964, Philip Larkin, ”The Whitsun Weddings”, Faber & Faber The fathers with broad belts under their suits And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;"

Adjective
  1. 1
    morally degraded wordnet
  2. 2
    showing a seam wordnet

Etymology

From seam + -y.

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