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seamier

seamier is the comparative form of seamy.

Meaning of seamy

Adjective

seamy (comparative seamier, superlative seamiest)

  1. Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
    • Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life's wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71.2013, Sam Jones, Shiv Malik, “Lou Reed, lead singer of Velvet Undergound, dies aged 71”, in The Guardian Online
  2. Having or showing a seam.
    • The fathers with broad belts under their suits
      And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;1964, Philip Larkin, ”The Whitsun Weddings”, Faber & Faber

Questions about seamier

What is seamier the comparative form of?
Seamier is the comparative form of seamy.

Words near seamier in the dictionary

  1. seamful
  2. seamhead
  3. seamheads
  4. seamice
  5. Seamie
  6. seamier
  7. seamiest
  8. seamily
  9. seaminess
  10. seaming
  11. seaming machine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seamier (page history and authors); seamy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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