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Example sentences for: seamy

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Advocates of reform are always happy to have a high-profile scandal, like the presently unfolding "Indogate," to help them sensitize the public to just how seamy the whole business of campaign financing is.
The Map Room was the right choice: The Oval Office would have been presumptuous and seamy (Where's that private study, Bill?)
The evidence also includes strongly corroborative statements made to me by two of Jones' friends, complete with tellingly detailed, seamy specifics remarkably consistent with Jones' allegations.
It claims the most luxurious shopping areas, the presidential Elysée Palace, the grands boulevards and financial district, but also, farther north, seamy Clichy and Pigalle, as well as hilly Montmartre, where modern art could be said to have begun.
News and Newsweek advise on how to explain the seamy details to your kids (be honest yet elliptical; whatever you do, don't talk about the cigar).