Local English word record

seamy

adjective · 2 senses

morally degraded- Seattle Weekly- James Joyce

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Examples

  • a seedy district
  • the seamy side of life
  • sleazy characters hanging around casinos
  • sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls
  • the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils

Word relationships

Synonyms

seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

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Princeton WordNet 3.0