Seam·y a. Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. “Many a seamy scar.”
     Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.   --Sir W. Scott.
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  seamy
       adj : 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" [syn: seedy, sleazy,
              sordid, squalid]
       [also: seamiest, seamier]