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Meanings of seamy in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
1
Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
3
Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
4
But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
1
I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
1
In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
1
He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
Usage of seamy in inglés
1
But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
5
Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
6
In fact, he was familiar with this seamy side of Providence.
7
She knew nothing of the seamy side of his hard life.
8
The seamy side of life has been laid bare to me.
9
The seamy side of existence had always been carefully hidden from his eyes.
10
A woman has no business to know the seamy side of human nature.
11
Because, Carley-youknow how you hate the-theseamy side of things.
12
This painting acknowledges its creator's seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.
13
And the store looked as seamy as everything else around them.
14
For starters, he was remarkably candid about the seamy side of small-town life.
15
I thought that guys who ran seamy establishments like that were-Youknow, like-
16
Let her see the seamy side,' he says, 'she's no fool.
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