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Meanings of seamy in inglês

Morally degraded.

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Usage of seamy in inglês
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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
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
The Irish Times
3
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
5
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
15
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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