(a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors present the seamy side of the beneficial practice to handle erectile impotence with papaverine or with the papaverine-Regitin combination.
(2) This painting acknowledges its creator’s seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.
(3) Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal leader, had been caught up in a seamy scandal concerning a youth called Norman Scott, which led finally to Thorpe's departure as party leader and then his prosecution and acquittal.
(4) Its seamy side once saw it dubbed Rio sur Mer, but I felt it was more like Paris in the sun.
Steamy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.
Example Sentences:
(1) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(2) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(3) Photograph: FutureDairy I had imagined the world’s first robotic rotary milking dairy at Camden to be a clinical, mechanical affair, antithetical to the steamy breath, soft underbellies and leisurely bovine sensibilities of the cattle it deals with.
(4) It can be found on the prairies of the midwest; in the abattoirs of Chicago; in the snows of Iowa and North Dakota; in the Texas panhandle and the steamy bayous of Louisiana; in the sierras of California and the woods of Maine.
(5) In the last instalment, things had become steamy between Alana and One Direction's Liam; now everyone anxiously awaited the results of a pregnancy test.
(6) Their third encounter took place on the morning of Huhne’s release in the unlikely setting of a steamy motorway cafe, over a full English breakfast.
(7) Women getting steamy in front of man-held cameras is not a new phenomenon, especially not in pop music.
(8) Founded in 1757, this snug and steamy hostelry is the city’s oldest chop house and all its meals (mains from £5.75) are served with a complimentary sausage.
(9) Midsummer nights are steamy in Manama, and sweat glistened on thousands of faces as Sheikh Abdel-Latif Al Mahmoud boomed out a warning to Bahrain's citizens to stand guard against criminals and conspiracies.
(10) I think, it’s plain to say that all these quite serious attachments to what’s sold as lip glossed, steamy, hot and happy, passion will remain relevant throughout our sexual lives.
(11) Instead, we are left with a murky stew of allegations, coincidences and the steamy whispers of western spies.
(12) Photograph: Alamy Edith Piaf Spotify playlist In a steamy cellar on the Right Bank, jazz singer Caroline Nin lives the part in Hymne a Piaf (Theatre Essaion, 6 rue Pierre au Lard, 75004, +33 6 16 27 90 58; 26 and 31 December, 2,7 and 9 January, tickets €25), a cabaret biography that will leave you gasping with its intensity .
(13) Of course, I could go on about how we should all be sharing them and how steamy it can all get but, let's be realistic, it's not really a viable long-term water-saving solution.
(14) Teloloapan is near the area shared by both Guerrero and Michoacan states and known as Tierra Caliente for its steamy weather.
(15) The French need never shudder again at the memory of traumas suffered at the hands of these opponents in Seville and Guadalajara three decades ago, or even the deflation endured in the steamy heat of the Maracanã at the last World Cup .
(16) The Fifty Shades books were released last spring, and public libraries in Georgia, Florida and elsewhere soon pulled the racy romance trilogy or decided not to order the books, saying they were too steamy or too poorly written.
(17) I float easily in this salty hot water, and, as I close my eyes and breathe through the steamy fronds, I, too, feel like I'm on drugs.
(18) When it was alive, the Andes were mere hillocks and arid North Patagonia consisted of steamy jungle and grassland.
(19) We are willing to work in tandem with the UK to preserve and develop the bilateral relationship.” Tsang said that in the intensely pragmatic world of international diplomacy, neither Beijing nor London could be surprised that after a steamy eight-month fling they were now puckering up for a parting kiss.
(20) Author EL James, whose steamy novel has sold more than 70m copies worldwide, revealed last month that Charlie Hunnam will play Grey and Dakota Johnson will portray Anastasia Steele in the big-screen adaptation.