Well, I never knew about "seamy" either, and, as someone who has sewn a lot, found this fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEAMY] Reference
2 Apr. 403/1 He appreciated to a considerable extent, what we may perhaps venture to call the seamy side of human affairs. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEAMY] Reference
Shakespeare's use of "seamy" in this passage of Othello is also a pun -- appearance seeming and reality is a major theme of the play. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEAMY] Reference
Dowd is calling the whole thing "seamy," and whenever someone brings up Bill Ayers, Rich sees a. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Gut] Reference
So your household names no rust nor seamy defacing. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
This was indeed the raw and seamy side of soldiering. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
VELSHI: I feel like you were on to another seamy story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2009] Reference
By Friday night the story had taken another seamy turn. From Wordnik.com. [Where Is Danielle Van Dam?] Reference
CNN's Karl Penhaul takes us to the seamy side of paradise. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005] Reference
In fact, he was familiar with this seamy side of Providence. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
That's good news, considering the glut of seamy parts now available. From Wordnik.com. [Sordid Human Tricks: Hollywood Hookermania] Reference
They were not willing to talk about the seamy aspects of globalization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Did Ralph Nader Snatch the Presidency Away From Al Gore? - December 15, 2000] Reference
Reporters, however, were in grave danger of appearing seamy and foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Journalism 101: Human Nature] Reference
He was getting the other, the seamy side of things, at last with a vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
We'll delve into the strange and sometimes seamy world of celebrity reporting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2006] Reference
He was very fluent and somewhat cynical, and turned the seamy side of his trade. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
As a young police reporter, Fuller saw the seamy side of life on Chicago's South Side. From Wordnik.com. [Get Me Rewrite! How To Fix A Newspaper Chain] Reference
Steffens was exposing the seamy side of municipal affairs in "The Shame of the Cities.". From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Are journalists exposing hypocrisy in high places or just wallowing in the seamy stuff?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008] Reference
And a small voice spoke to her also, and showed her the seamy side of this great deed of hers. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Thereupon is drawn a vivid and vigorous picture of the seamy side of the social life of the times. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
And it pursues the sorts of seamy stories from which most newspapers and magazines tend to recoil. From Wordnik.com. [The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age] Reference
From his fifteenth year, Thor had seen the seamy side of life, had lived, grown and developed among men. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Below this were strata of trachitic breccia and augite; the formation was then seamy to an unknown depth. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
When her husband was away from home, friends say, Laurie would plunge into the seamy side of Fayetteville. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman With Two Lives] Reference
Sean Callebs is live in Miami and brings us up to date with all of the sordid, seamy, senseless details -- Sean. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008] Reference
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: You've probably heard countless stories about the seamy side of romance on the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2002] Reference
He early became acquainted with the seamy as well as the brilliant side of courtly life; for in 1359 he was in the campaign in. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Sheriff Tim Evinger worries this won't be the last of the suicide plots driven by those who exploit the Web's seamy underside. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2005] Reference
A lot journalists are out there on their own or travelling with the Northern Alliance to try to show the often seamy, undecided war. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2001] Reference
GORANI: Well, as police look into the possibilities, among them one theme is emerging -- the gentlemanly game has a very seamy side. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2007] Reference
From another point of view, to those who love the country and make their home there, there cannot but be a seamy side to the picture. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Tour in South Africa] Reference
Few men knew the seamy side of London better than John Steele: its darksome streets and foul alleys, its hovels and various habitations. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
So, you're going to get one seamy (ph) night of television, because I think the "Bachelor" is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2002] Reference
Sometimes at our feet, beneath the seamy fissures of a hillside, or far removed by sweep of meadow, lay the fluctuant mass we call the sea. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
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