seamy

seamy
    adj 1: showing a seam
    2: 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: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
       {squalid}]
    

Seamy \Seam"y\, a.
   Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. "Many a
   seamy scar." --Burns.
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         Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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37 Moby Thesaurus words for "seamy":
      abhorrent, contemptible, dark, degenerate, degraded, depraved,
      derogatory, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, distasteful,
      foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, low, nasty,
      notorious, odious, repellent, repulsive, rotten, scurvy, shady,
      shameful, sordid, squalid, ugly, unattractive, unpalatable,
      unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, unseemly, unwholesome,
      vile