seamy

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I admit it has its seamy side, this immortality.

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showing a seam

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adjective

showing a seam

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for seamy.

adjective

showing a seam

adjective

See also: seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

Example sentences

I admit it has its seamy side, this immortality.

Look back through the history of SF and you'll find it's always had a seamy underbelly, right back to the days of the gold rush.

I finished my degree at FAU in Boca, but was so busy working to pay my way, I missed the seamy underbelly of the town.

Is this your first exposure to the seamy underbelly of government contracting?

That's the seamy underbelly of Google; they are constantly playing this game of how much advertising pain will people endure for their free services.

Or, really, its extremely seamy, but all the seams are very subtle and between individual pixels instead of larger regions.

People can use whatever justification they want to pry into seamy details, but unless he was given a date of expiration, it's his information to do with what he wants.