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Meanings of seamy side in English

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Usage of seamy side in English
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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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And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
3
Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
4
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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For starters, he was remarkably candid about the seamy side of small-town life.
The Council of Dads
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Let her see the seamy side,' he says, 'she's no fool.
The Black Pearl
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Oh, if they could only see the seamy side of it.
Press Cuttings
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This was indeed the raw and seamy side of soldiering.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe
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Truly I was looking on life from the seamy side.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Ye...
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Here was displayed shamelessly the seamy side of western settlement.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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Mr. Hardy wrote a few mournfully memorable lines on the seamy side of war.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
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