How to Use seamy in a Sentence

seamy

adjective
  • She was involved in a seamy corruption scandal.
  • But for fans of those seamy places where art and smut intersect, this movie is a nasty little treat.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • 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
  • Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing.
    — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • There is, however, a seamy side to the Democrats’ success in defeating this line of attack.
    — James North, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Rather, Kunkel’s book exposes the seamy side of the industry with shocking candor.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2005
  • The seamy Epstein saga has even spilled into Britain’s royal family.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nothing quite ups the tawdry factor in an already seamy situation than these ritual apologies.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Town & Country, 14 Feb. 2013
  • 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
  • As a type, there is something of the frontier sheriff or noir detective in the exorcist, someone who has rubbed up against seamy outlaws and knows their wiles.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • 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
  • On the seamier side, David Warner is positively chilling as a ruthless valet.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • CrimeCon can occasionally feel like another compromise with the seamier side of true crime.
    — Author: Britt Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Always seamy, the narcotics trade was largely legal until global prohibition began in the early 20th century.
    — Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But two recent Senate reports revealed seamy sales practices of some Medigap and Medicare Advantage plan brokers.
    — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 11 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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