seamy
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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 Dry" takes this juicy setup and uses it to examine the seamy underbelly of this small farming community.
From Salon • May 19, 2021
Nguyen’s narrator tries to escape his past as he navigates the seamy underworld of 1980s Paris.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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
Vocabulary lists containing seamy
Othello
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