seamy

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  1. adjective Sordid; base: "seamy tales of aberrant sexual practices, messy divorces, drug addiction, mental instability, and suicide attempts” (Barbara Goldsmith).
  2. adjective Having, marked with, or showing a seam.

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  • I thumbed through them, looking for the seamy parts - one was full of hard homosexual imagery. —  Omni: January 1994
  • Think of it as the seamy underside of the bad economy: Harsh market conditions, corporate cost-cutting and a downsized, disgruntled workforce create the perfect storm for systematic and sophisticated attacks by underworld enterprises on data systems in respected companies worldwide. —  CRM Buyer
  • Even the city in this edition feels less like the seamy, gritty, you-are-there Bangkok of the first film than some scrubbed, polished, Vegas notion of the Thai capital. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • He delighted in Merrill's lack of guilt about 'the seamy side of life' and loved the fact that his new companion appeared not to know too much about Christianity. —  London Review of Books
  • Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children. —  Buffalo Pundit
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  1. from Middle English semy; from seam + -y.
 

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