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BNC: 33696 COCA: 26775

seamy

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seamy /ˈsiːmi/ adjective
seamier; seamiest
seamy
/ˈsiːmi/
adjective
seamier; seamiest
Learner's definition of SEAMY
[also more seamy; most seamy]
: of or relating to unpleasant and usually illegal things (such as crime, drugs, etc.)丑恶的;龌龊的
BNC: 33696 COCA: 26775
seamier; seamiest
1
archaic : having the rough side of the seam showing
2
b
: degraded, sordid
the seamy side of urban life
seaminess noun

Example Sentences

She was involved in a seamy corruption scandal.
Recent Examples on the Web The seamy district of Moldovanka, filled with low-slung buildings and small factories, was to the Jewish community of Odesa what the Lower East Side once was to New York’s Jews. New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022 Having left Naples at 15 — under seamy circumstances gradually revealed in Super-16 flashback — the younger Felice had never intended to come back. Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2022 Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing. Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it. Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021 There are elements of Martin Scorsese’s seamy, violent New York filtered through the comic sensibility of an S. J. Perelman and the experimental whimsy of a Flann O’Brien, and the plot is consistently gripping. Michael Washburn, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021 Because the Woleys’ split had some ostensibly seamy aspects that contrasted with Bryan’s general orderliness, factions of the public—comedians, social media—delighted in mocking the situation. Curtis Sittenfeld, The Atlantic, 16 July 2021 Have their reputations been tarnished by scandals such as Operation Varsity Blues, which exposed the seamy side of college admissions in several of America’s most prominent universities? Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 8 June 2021 Three years later, strange doings are afoot, in a seamy side of England that sees the entrenched upper class feeling threatened by this influx of the extraordinary among them, creating a series of unlikely bedfellows and uneasy alliances. Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of seamy was in 1605
BNC: 33696 COCA: 26775

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