seamyadjective
uk/ˈsiː.mi/us/ˈsiː.mi/(of a situation) unpleasant because of a connection with dishonest behaviour, violence, and illegal sex:
The film vividly portrays the seamy side of life in London in the early 1970s.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- immoral
- scandalous
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- sinful
- wickedness
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