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

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

From Salon • May 19, 2021

The best way to approach any von Sternberg film is to look, first, to the surfaces — ornate, seamy or otherwise.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2020

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