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

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

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.

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

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

Oh, if they could only see the seamy side of it.

This was indeed the raw and seamy side of soldiering.

Truly I was looking on life from the seamy side.

Here was displayed shamelessly the seamy side of western settlement.

Mr. Hardy wrote a few mournfully memorable lines on the seamy side of war.