seamy

It’s huge, brazen and entangled with the seamy politics of migration and assimilation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

The opening scene, a “Blade Runner” homage that leads into a dark, seamy version of the typical “Star Wars” cantina, is a witty example of the show’s method.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

"The Dry" takes this juicy setup and uses it to examine the seamy underbelly of this small farming community.

From Salon ● May 19, 2021

And though it would certainly add color to my story to present a descent into a seamy underworld, I can’t fail to mention that the North Beach Strip is only a few blocks long.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

A former private detective, Hammett grounded his narrative in a corrupt Montana mining town, replacing the cozy murders of traditional whodunits with a seamier view of vice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

If you can linger, the Prohibition tour is a colorful introduction to the village’s seamier past.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2018

One night, it became the obsession of one of the guest lecturers, the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, to bring Adichie to one of Lagos’s seamier nightspots.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017

Truth Is Stranger Than Florida This new true-crime series explores the seamier side of the Sunshine State.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2016

My trips were limited, directed, and avoided the seamier side.

From The Huddlers by William Campbell Gault

Those places can harbor the ugliest feelings and seamiest beliefs, yet go undetected if a person speaks and acts otherwise.

From Washington Times ● May 18, 2016

But he imbues even his most marginalized characters with strength, dignity and even wisdom as they boldly navigate the Dream Factory’s seamiest underbelly on their own self-possessed terms.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2015

By The seamiest affair in Washington this summer, one of the seamiest in many summers, is the aborted appointment of Brett McGurk as ambassador to Iraq—but not for the reason many think.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2012

But Season 3 of “The Wire” proved that it was also possible to find suspense and meaning in the seamiest margins of city council meetings and municipal elections.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2011

His very gloves came from a little shop in Newmarket, where only the seamiest and clumsiest of hand-coverings are provided, and horn buttons are a sine qua non.

From The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman