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Significats de seamy en anglès

Morally degraded.

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Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
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Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
The Irish Times
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
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Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
The Irish Times
4
But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
NY Magazine
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
An Inland Voyage
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I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
The Naked God
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
Reuters
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
Reuters
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
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The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
The new yorker
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In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
The Beast Within
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
The new yorker
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
I'll never get out of this world alive
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To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
Monday Mourning
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He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
Storm Front
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
Raging Heat
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
The Guardian
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
Abaddon's Gate
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
Etiquette
Ús de seamy en anglès
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But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
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Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
The Irish Times
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And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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In fact, he was familiar with this seamy side of Providence.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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She knew nothing of the seamy side of his hard life.
The Mucker
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The seamy side of life has been laid bare to me.
The Jericho Road
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The seamy side of existence had always been carefully hidden from his eyes.
From One Generation to Another
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A woman has no business to know the seamy side of human nature.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Because, Carley-youknow how you hate the-theseamy side of things.
The Call of the Canyon
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This painting acknowledges its creator's seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.
The Guardian
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And the store looked as seamy as everything else around them.
Kaleidoscope
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For starters, he was remarkably candid about the seamy side of small-town life.
The Council of Dads
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I thought that guys who ran seamy establishments like that were-Youknow, like-
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
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Let her see the seamy side,' he says, 'she's no fool.
The Black Pearl
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