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Recent Examples of seamy
But the underlying accusations were seamy and deeply entangled with Trump’s political rise.
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Michelle L. Price, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, there was another closed-door House Ethics Committee meeting to debate whether to release the panel’s report on Gaetz’s seamy doings.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
Why did this seamy Trump trial have to be the first?
Sketch in N.Y. apartment turns out to be rare Revolutionary War drawing
Trump’s hush money trial strategy: Deny, delay and denigrate
Measles is more contagious than the coronavirus.
—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
Always seamy, the narcotics trade was largely legal until global prohibition began in the early 20th century.
—Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
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Michelle L. Price, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, there was another closed-door House Ethics Committee meeting to debate whether to release the panel’s report on Gaetz’s seamy doings.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
Why did this seamy Trump trial have to be the first?
Sketch in N.Y. apartment turns out to be rare Revolutionary War drawing
Trump’s hush money trial strategy: Deny, delay and denigrate
Measles is more contagious than the coronavirus.
—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
Always seamy, the narcotics trade was largely legal until global prohibition began in the early 20th century.
—Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamy
Adjective
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Both Ventura and Jane alleged they were pressured to participate in sordid hotel nights with men hired from online services like Craigslist even after Combs had viciously beaten them.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, when asked about the sordid incident, quickly blamed Padilla.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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This panel will examine mass incarceration through multiple lenses and how the criminal justice system serves as a point of crisis of public health, black wealth building, voter disenfranchisement, and family structure.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 July 2025
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The incident took place at the Norwood Avenue subway station at 9 a.m. Marshall was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, as well as third-degree assault and second-degree harassment.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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The beautiful game has all too often been marred by unsavory incidents of bigotry.—
Hannah Ryan,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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What follows is an unexpected morality play surrounding not only the complications of bringing Rajesh’s actions to light, but also Maitri’s unsavory methods that sparked this violent eruption, which rest on her bringing harm to another, equally vulnerable woman.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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Collecting vast sums of cash-on-loan from some particularly disreputable business associates, Charles opened The Egyptian Tomb Lounge in Reno, Nevada, which operated for a grand total of four months before unceremoniously burning to the ground.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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This 2003 film, from the notoriously disreputable German director Uwe Boll, contained practically no coherent ideas, and its primary motivation seemed to be to cram as many bare breasts, exploding corpses and nu-metal songs into one movie as the Motion Picture Association of America would allow.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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Though the organization had a history of taking action against (supposedly) immoral ministers, Kunstler had no direct evidence to prove this was the case with Rev. Hall.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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His plan calls for demanding that messages not change more frequently than every four seconds, not include flashing lights and not include obscene, indecent or immoral content.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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If senior leadership cuts corners, tolerates unethical behavior or avoids scrutiny, that tone filters down.—
Toby Braun,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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All other activity, from running a business to producing unnecessary luxuries (including, notably, literature), were thus unethical, even parasitical, to the extent that one’s time ought to be spent in useful production, especially agriculture.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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People used to hang iron on their doors to keep fae and other wicked spirits out at night.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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What makes the series so delightful is Osman’s wicked sense of humor, and the empathy suffused throughout.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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At school, nothing was more shameful to me than seeing my father drinking from the water fountain, sucking and gulping.—
Ottessa Moshfegh,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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It was used during World War II to justify the internment of Japanese Americans and has since become synonymous with some of the nation’s most shameful civil liberties violations.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
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“Seamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamy. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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