But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.

Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.

And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.

Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.

Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?

In fact, he was familiar with this seamy side of Providence.

She knew nothing of the seamy side of his hard life.

The seamy side of life has been laid bare to me.

The seamy side of existence had always been carefully hidden from his eyes.

A woman has no business to know the seamy side of human nature.

Because, Carley-youknow how you hate the-theseamy side of things.

This painting acknowledges its creator's seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.

And the store looked as seamy as everything else around them.

For starters, he was remarkably candid about the seamy side of small-town life.

I thought that guys who ran seamy establishments like that were-Youknow, like-

Let her see the seamy side,' he says, 'she's no fool.