Seamy

Definition: Seamy

Seamy

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "seamy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Full of seams, so as to be difficult to blast. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Seamy

Synonyms: seedy (adj), sleazy (adj), sordid (adj), squalid (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imperfection	Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Seamy

English words defined with "seamy": seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seamy": Seamy Side, squealy coal. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Evangelical Terrorism: Censorship, Falwell, Robertson & the Seamy Side of Christian Fundamentalism (reference) Seamy Side of Denver (reference) Seamy Side of Government: Essays on Punishment and Coercion (120P) (reference) The Seamy Side of Democracy: Repression in America (reference) Under Cover: War Stories from the Seamy Side of Law Enforcement (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Seamy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seamy" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

Expressions using "seamy": seamy side ♦ seamy side of life ♦ the seamy side ♦ the seamy side of life. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "seamy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i mbuluar me tegela, i brendshëm (domestic, esoteric, immanent, indoor, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, intramural, intrinsic, inward, Midland). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏دنئ (currish, loon, low down, mean, obsequious, rank, scurvy, servile, sleazy, stinking). (various references)

Bulgarian		с непочистени шевове. (various references)

Czech		pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seedy, shady, specious, suspect, unsavory), špinavý (black, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid, unclean). (various references)

Danish		krokodilleskind (alligator skin, check, cold lap, crocodile leather, crocodile skin, orange peel, pebbling, seamy surface, surface folding). (various references)

Farsi		درزدار. (various references)

French		sordide, louche. (various references)

German		heruntergekommen (come down, decrepit, dilapidated, down at heel, run down, sordid). (various references)

Greek		πλήρησ ραφών, άσχημοσ (black, homely, nasty, shapeless, ugly, unlovely, unshightly, unsightly), τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, harsh, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rude, rugged, scabrous, scraggly, screechy, throaty, tough). (various references)

Hebrew		עלוב (abject, god forsaken, humbled, mean, measly, miserable, pitiful, poor, worthless, wretched), �'רוע (bad, deficit, execrable, inferior, putrid, reduction, shortage, shortfall). (various references)

Hungarian		varratos, varrásos, forradásos (cicatricose, scarred, scarry). (various references)

Italian		squallido (bleak, dingy, dismal, dreary, shabby, sleazy, squalid, wretched), provvisto di cuciture. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		暗�'面 (the dark or seamy side). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あ�"�"くめ�" (the dark or seamy side). (various references)

Manx		whommit. (various references)

Pig Latin		eamysay

Portuguese		imperfeito (crude, defective, faun, imperfect, imperial, inchoate, incomprehensibility, incorrectly, lacerated, lame, ragged, unfinished), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distemper, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, harsh, horrible, horrid, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), com emendas, com costuras, áspero (abrupt, acerb, aspero, astringent, bluff, coarse, cornered, gruff, hackly, hard, harsh, his, hoarsen, horrent, inclinable, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, scrawny, severe, tart). (various references)

Romanian		cusut (sewing), cu o cusãturã. (various references)

Russian		со швами, неприглядный (unsightly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sa šavom, gadno (nastily), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, sick, ugly, vile). (various references)

Spanish		sórdido (backstairs, seedy, sleazy, slummy, sordid), que tiene costuras, que tiene cicatrices, arrugado (creased, kinky, lined, shrivelled, wizened, wrinkled). (various references)

Swedish		tarvlig (cheap, common, frugal, ignoble, low down, paltry, scurvy, shabby, vulgar), eländig (forlorn, grubby, miserable, rotten). (various references)

Turkish		kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), façası bozuk, façalı, dikişli, çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukranian		із швами назовні, покритий швами. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Seamy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceamy, eamy, Saami, Saeby, saem, saey, sami, sammi, sammy, samy, sceem, seamly, Seary, S'easy, seaty, Seaya, secam, secay, seemy, segamo, Semaf, Semmy, semy, sesamie, shamy, Sismey, somy, spam, sumy, swamy, zeam. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "seamy" (pronounced sē"mē)
3	-ē" m ē	creamy, dreamy, steamy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-s-y"
	-1 letter: ayes, easy, eyas, maes, mays, mesa, same, seam, yams, yeas.
	-2 letters: aye, ays, ems, mae, mas, may, sae, say, sea, yam, yea, yes.
	-3 letters: ae, am, as, ay, em, es, ma, me, my, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-s-y"
	+1 letter: embays, mameys, mateys, maybes, mayest, measly, myases, smeary, steamy, yamens, zymase.
	+2 letters: amnesty, amylase, amylose, bynames, daysmen, embassy, magueys, majesty, malmsey, mameyes, mammeys, mastery, mayhems, mesally, myiases, pyemias, samoyed, someday, someway, streamy, yammers, zymases.
	+3 letters: amethyst, amusedly, amylases, amylenes, amyloses, aneurysm, assembly, atemoyas, daymares, daytimes, dismayed, domesday, emissary, empyemas, epimysia, eyebeams, homestay, kerygmas, lamasery, lampreys, lehayims, malmseys, massedly, masterly, mayflies, mayoress, maypoles, mayweeds, mesially, mesnalty, midyears, mislayer, myelomas, payments, pyaemias, ramosely, rosemary, samoyeds, seamanly, seminary, shamoyed, someways, spermary, steamily, sunbeamy, sycamine, sycamore, taleysim.
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