seamy
seamy 英 [ˈsi:mi] 美 [ˈsimi]
adj. 丑恶的；露出线缝的
名词复数:seamies 比较级:seamier 最高级:seamiest
- Things that are seamy have lost all morality. Your mother wouldn't approve of you going to a seamy video arcade, especially not if you went with a group of seamy people.
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- adj. 丑恶的；露出线缝的
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1. What does your seamy side tell you?
你的阴暗面告诉你什么？
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2. On a brighter note in this seamy investigation I came across clues to a most unusual dictionary.
显然，本文涉及到了一个关于社会阴暗面和人性堕落的探究。 不过，在翻阅一部非同寻常的词典时，我却凑巧在一条基调较为明快的条目中找到了线索。
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3. They're not necessarily about the seamy underbelly of life, but there is always the hint that we are eavesdropping.
这样的照片不见得要揭露生活里丑陋的、脆弱的地方，但是却总暗示着——我们在偷听他人的生活。
- seamy (adj.) c. 1600, "least pleasant, worst," in figurative phrase seamy side, from seam + -y (2); the seamy side of a sewn garment being the less attractive, and thus typically turned in. The popularity of the figurative sense likely is due to its use by Shakespeare in "Othello" IV.ii.146: "Some such Squire he was That turn'd your wits the seamy-side without, And made you to suspect me with the Moore."
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