Sentence example with the word 'seamy'

seamy

abhorrent, degenerate, derogatory, disreputable, ignoble, inglorious, notorious, repulsive, shady, squalid, unpalatable, unsavory, vile

Definition adj. showing a seam

Last update: July 18, 2015

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Cruelty is the seamy side of humanity.   [Please select]

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It was the sensation caused in 1884 by the lawsuit brought against Strindberg's Married (a collection of short stories dealing realistically with some of the seamy sides of marriage) which brought to a head the rebellion against the elegant and superficial conventions which were strangling Swedish literature.   [Please select]

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The son of an American ambassador, addicted to the seamy underside of a Central Asian city, finally gets in over his head.   [Please select]

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He had seen life on its seamy side.   [Please select]

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It was the sensation caused in 1884 by the lawsuit brought against Strindberg's Married (a collection of short stories dealing realistically with some of the seamy sides of marriage) which brought to a head the rebellion against the elegant and superficial conventions which were strangling Swedish literature.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER X THE SEAMY SIDE About four o'clock on the following afternoon Mrs.'   [Please select]

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It quite often occurs that the bed-rock is seamy, with many small depressions.   [Please select]

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But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.   [Please select]

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A seamy-visaged Frenchman, Pierre Guillitoue, the village butcher--a philosopher and anarchist, he told me--rapped with a bottle on the veranda railing.   [Please select]

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Instead of that he's got a first-rate practice on the seamy side, and every blackguard with half a case takes it straight to Bennett Addenbrooke.   [Please select]

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Here and there we find evidence -- for instance, in the first two sonnets--that he was not blind to its seamy side.   [Please select]

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