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Recent Examples of seamy
Always seamy, the narcotics trade was largely legal until global prohibition began in the early 20th century.
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Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
As a type, there is something of the frontier sheriff or noir detective in the exorcist, someone who has rubbed up against seamy outlaws and knows their wiles.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
And that’s intentional, Mr. Jónasson says, because his model as a crime writer is more apt to be found in the pastoral villages and cozy tea rooms of Agatha Christie’s St. Mary Mead than in the seamy back alleys of Oslo.
—Kristina Lindborg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
The third encompasses Twitter’s last gasp of relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its subsequent slide into Musk’s shabbier, seamier X.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
As a type, there is something of the frontier sheriff or noir detective in the exorcist, someone who has rubbed up against seamy outlaws and knows their wiles.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
And that’s intentional, Mr. Jónasson says, because his model as a crime writer is more apt to be found in the pastoral villages and cozy tea rooms of Agatha Christie’s St. Mary Mead than in the seamy back alleys of Oslo.
—Kristina Lindborg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
The third encompasses Twitter’s last gasp of relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its subsequent slide into Musk’s shabbier, seamier X.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamy
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Subscriber Exclusive Also: From Howie Carr, the sordid history of the Governor’s Council The tale of a local option fee on high-dollar property sales is likely far from over as debate over housing policy starts to reach a boiling point on Beacon Hill.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
21 Dec. 2024
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The sordid origin story of infidelity that explains Elphaba’s birth and dysfunctional family taints everything that follows.—
Armond White,
National Review,
27 Nov. 2024
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Spencer, who lives in East Harlem, is charged with murder, criminal weapons possession and criminal use of a firearm, according to police.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Over the course of 49 pages, the plea agreement describes an array of criminal acts involving Saavedra and other unnamed sheriff’s deputies, who allegedly harassed and threatened people to intimidate the crypto mogul’s enemies and further his criminal aims.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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In an effort to protect taxpayers from potential litigation, jail time and other unsavory outcomes of tax fraud, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Coalition of Scam and Scheme Threats (CASST) released new measures surrounding how to claim the Fuel Tax Credit.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The unsavory arrangement came to light Sunday, Jan. 12, when a man, identified as 67-year-old Cleo Spence, called the Albany Police Department to have the mom and her children evicted from his home on East Broad Avenue, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.—
SPIN Team,
SPIN,
28 Nov. 2024
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They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.—
David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2024
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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Last week’s interview saw CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil speak with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book The Message, which passionately argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is immoral and should be condemned.—
Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Oct. 2024
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Without acquiring advanced consent, this practice is not only unethical but severely impacts consumer confidence in the brand.—
Thomas Zawacki,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials.—
Jacob Orledge,
ProPublica,
6 Jan. 2025
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Like what odd specificity made that person's laugh and made that wicked part of their sense of humor shine or pissed you off like nobody else?—
Rachel Martin,
NPR,
12 Jan. 2025
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Neighbor-bully-jerkface Trey takes the bolt cutters to the tunnel’s electrical whatchamacallits, which causes a minor explosion and opens up that wicked grate that got Matty in ’94.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
11 Jan. 2025
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While Ellen’s spasms and fits are viewed as shameful by her peers—even her husband—Franz views her as a sacred figure who would have been a high priestess in another age.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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In the four years since mobs of his supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat, Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have waged an incessant campaign to rewrite the history of one of the most shameful events in modern American history.—
Carl Leubsdorf,
The Mercury News,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Seamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamy. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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