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Recent Examples of seamy
That seamy swagger of Jack Nicholson as über-dirtbag Randle McMurphy in Cuckoo’s Nest could have been shot here yesterday.
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Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
3 Feb. 2025
While the specific charges were about checks and ledgers, the underlying accusations were seamy and deeply entangled with Trump’s political rise.
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Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
The specific charges in the hush money case were about checks and ledgers, but the underlying accusations were seamy and deeply entangled with Trump's political rise.
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Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Jake Offenhartz and Michelle L. Price The Associated Press,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Jan. 2025
Just like Blue Velvet, the painting exposes the seamy underbelly of small-town America.
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Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for seamy
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
3 Feb. 2025
While the specific charges were about checks and ledgers, the underlying accusations were seamy and deeply entangled with Trump’s political rise.
—
Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
The specific charges in the hush money case were about checks and ledgers, but the underlying accusations were seamy and deeply entangled with Trump's political rise.
—
Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Jake Offenhartz and Michelle L. Price The Associated Press,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Jan. 2025
Just like Blue Velvet, the painting exposes the seamy underbelly of small-town America.
—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for seamy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamy
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Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.
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After months of scandal and speculation, and several weeks of extended reunion unpacking, the sordid mess of Summer House season ten has been excavated.
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As Hinkley’s family and fiancée mourn the loss of a young man who still had his entire future ahead of him, prosecutors emphasized the scrutiny applied when criminal allegations involve an on-duty law enforcement officer.
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Foketi was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, false imprisonment and misdemeanor domestic violence.
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Daemon dispatches some unsavory, not overly bright fellows to break into the castle at King's Landing to kill Aemond.
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Artificial intelligence tools have remarkably broad knowledge about the world, but some of it is unsavory or dangerous.
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After the laughter ringing through the room subsides, though, Abela does allow for a moment of reverence — for the HBO drama if not for the disreputable people who populate it.
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The cultural shift that turned horror cinema from a disreputable, rarely respected grind-house film genre into a billion-dollar-a-year mainstream business has done wonders for the genre’s overall quality.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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The artist wrote that keeping silent on this kind of behavior is akin to turning a blind eye to immoral behavior.
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Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei blasted the treatment of his team at the FIFA World Cup, suggesting it's been unethical.
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If unethical actors can deploy custom frontier AI models to aggressively interrogate smart contracts and find hidden protocol flaws, human-only defensive audits will be rendered obsolete.
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But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.
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Because my gut feeling tells me another round of wicked winds this way comes.
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Cleft palates appear not to have been treated as shameful under the Qing dynasty.
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That poor driver had to listen to me sniffle in shameful despair all the way back to the city.
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“Seamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamy. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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