Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seamy \Seam"y\, a.
   Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. ``Many a
   seamy scar.'' --Burns.

         Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Source : WordNet®

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}]