The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
(adjective) 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”
seamy
(adjective) showing a seam
Source: WordNet® 3.1
seamy (comparative seamier, superlative seamiest)
Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
Having or showing a seam.
• Mayes, Mayse, aymes, samey, syame
Source: Wiktionary
Seam"y, a.
Definition: 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: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.