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Recent Examples of seamy
While there are many moments of humor in the play, Hamill does not shy away from digging into the violent and seamy side of the world’s oldest profession.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
Working with cinematographer Robby Müller, Friedkin puts a Los Angeles on screen that is equal parts glamorous and seamy, where even the palm tree in the movie’s logo looks like a gunshot wound.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
Feinstein’s uncle, Morris Goldman, introduced her to the seamy world of San Francisco politics in the ’40s and ’50s, when bosses, bettors and bookies ran everything.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
Ailes denied the claims, some of which came in the form of detailed lawsuits, but the Murdochs, the family that controls Fox, ousted him amidst amid a flurry of personal accounts of seamy behavior.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
Working with cinematographer Robby Müller, Friedkin puts a Los Angeles on screen that is equal parts glamorous and seamy, where even the palm tree in the movie’s logo looks like a gunshot wound.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
Feinstein’s uncle, Morris Goldman, introduced her to the seamy world of San Francisco politics in the ’40s and ’50s, when bosses, bettors and bookies ran everything.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
Ailes denied the claims, some of which came in the form of detailed lawsuits, but the Murdochs, the family that controls Fox, ousted him amidst amid a flurry of personal accounts of seamy behavior.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamy
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Also located Downtown, The Mob Museum takes visitors on a wild ride through sordid acts of organized crime in town and worldwide.Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Still, the event’s sordid history remains top of mind.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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Officers conducting a preliminary investigation reviewed messages the student had left on Discord, an online chatting app used by gamers and others, and arrested the student on suspicion of making criminal threats.Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Overly precocious George jumps from the train to the countryside and, in true Dickensian fashion, encounters some helpful people as well as some unsavory types on his treacherous trek back home.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Rino, Lila’s brother, Stefano, her ex-husband, and Gennaro have all been taken under questioning; her brother and son particularly for their association with the neighborhood’s unsavory characters.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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But how did novels like Liu’s overcome the disreputable status of pulp fiction and gain an international reputation as serious literature?H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
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This term was derived from bawd, which referred to someone who encouraged immoral or promiscuous behavior, particularly a procuress or pimp.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Some senior officers mistakenly believe that the military is obligated to resist orders that are unethical or immoral.Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
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Those who supported the cat hunting ban said the methods to hunt mountain lions and bobcats were unethical and that hunting was unnecessary to regulate cat populations.Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
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Accepting unpaid work perpetuates an unethical cycle where fair compensation is sidestepped in favor of exploitation. 6.Melissa Houston, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Fitting with the film’s wicked tone, what ends up bringing Santa back to himself in Violent Night is, well, violence.Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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The Joker has become a classic Halloween costume, practically joining the ranks of vampires and wicked witches.Marci Robin, Allure, 31 Oct. 2024
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Wisconsin tribal leaders applaud Biden's apology for shameful Indian boarding schools In 2020, both the Biden and Trump campaigns made efforts to address Indigenous issues.Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
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Not holding my breath for Mike Johnson or Elise Stefanik to state the obvious that this is unacceptable, dangerous, & shameful.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Seamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamy. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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