How to Use seamy in a Sentence

seamy

adjective

• She was involved in a seamy corruption scandal.
• A last-minute switch was arranged to a space around the corner, still very much in the seamy, unseemly vein.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• But that first filthy photo was followed by more seamy shots of the congressman.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
• Degas did not ignore the sad, seamy fact of their connection.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• There is, however, a seamy side to the Democrats’ success in defeating this line of attack.
  — James North, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing.
  — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• What to know about the Scorpio lunar eclipse During a lunar eclipse in seamy Scorpio, themes of lust, envy, wrath, and vengeance are sure to emerge.
  — ELLE, 1 May 2023
• The thefts have proliferated along with the rise in prices for the most coveted items, the seamy side of the $1 billion market for rare sports collectibles.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• Rather, Kunkel’s book exposes the seamy side of the industry with shocking candor.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2005
• But the act was a shock, even for a series about the seamy underbelly of a reality dating show.
  — Lisa Rosen, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Angela Bundalovic stars as Miu, a woman who enters the seamy side of the Danish capital on a mission of vengeance.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2023
• The seamy Epstein saga has even spilled into Britain’s royal family.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• The trial also shined a light on the seamier side of one of the nation’s most ruthless and competitive industries.
  — Chris Francescani, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
• When the seamy secret side of the FBI’s methods began to leak out, his signature massaging of allies simply didn’t work.
  — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• Mamie is a chilly, beautiful sociopath who forces young Evie to work in seamy venues to support them both, under threat of being left at an orphanage.
  — Sarah Bird, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
• There’s no seamy underside to these works, which are both elegant and modern, as if there is no contradiction between the two ideas.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• Although difficult, that could happen after the seamy story of Menendez’s actions spills out in the trial.
  — John Fund, National Review, 5 Sep. 2017
• On the seamier side, David Warner is positively chilling as a ruthless valet.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
• The story is both pleasantly seamy and inconsequential, as pat and flimsy as a mad-science soap opera.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• Get the lowdown on Hot Springs’ seamier side in this museum, whose audiovisual galleries explore the lives of famous criminals in the Valley of the Vapors.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• Nothing quite ups the tawdry factor in an already seamy situation than these ritual apologies.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Town & Country, 14 Feb. 2013
• Over more than half a century, Mr. Fonseca wrote short stories, novels, and screenplays that titillated and shocked Brazilians with their terse style and seamy content.
  — Michael Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2020
• But two recent Senate reports revealed seamy sales practices of some Medigap and Medicare Advantage plan brokers.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 11 Apr. 2023
• CrimeCon can occasionally feel like another compromise with the seamier side of true crime.
  — Author: Britt Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
• If noir is a style, its hallmarks might include terse dialogue, an interest in seamy aspects of human behavior and black-and-white cinematography.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• Having left Naples at 15 — under seamy circumstances gradually revealed in Super-16 flashback — the younger Felice had never intended to come back.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2022
• Painstakingly, with everything from typography to body hair, the show recreates 1971 Midtown Manhattan in all its seamy, squalid disorder.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017
• Three years later, strange doings are afoot, in a seamy side of England that sees the entrenched upper class feeling threatened by this influx of the extraordinary among them, creating a series of unlikely bedfellows and uneasy alliances.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• At trial, prosecutors are expected to present evidence that purports to expose a seamy side of the billion-dollar industry of Division I college basketball and has prompted calls for sweeping overhauls.
  — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018

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