seamy

Example Sentences

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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

There’s no seamy underside to these works, which are both elegant and modern, as if there is no contradiction between the two ideas.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

The seamy district of Moldovanka, filled with low-slung buildings and small factories, was to the Jewish community of Odesa what the Lower East Side once was to New York’s Jews.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022

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