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- noun The state or condition of being
seamy .
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Examples
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The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story.
Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You Jason Linkins 2010
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Instead, you can look forward to months of non-stop, revolting tabloid seaminess.
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Scorsese's dark vision of human alienation in an urban wasteland also captures the seaminess of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, a place I remember vividly.
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Contrast the latest products of the media's fame factory with the Washington news of the moment: the breathtakingly real seaminess of the Abramoff story, the unscripted drama of Tom DeLay's fall, even the relatively minor human tableau of the Alito hearings.
Who Needs Hollywood? 2006
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Contrast the latest products of the media's fame factory with the Washington news of the moment: the breathtakingly real seaminess of the Abramoff story, the unscripted drama of Tom DeLay's fall, even the relatively minor human tableau of the Alito hearings.
Who Needs Hollywood? 2006
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Scorsese's dark vision of human alienation in an urban wasteland captures the seaminess of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, and DeNiro's career-making performance as Bickle is truly haunting, recalling those real-life outcasts who have used violent crime to tell an oblivious world: "I was here!".
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There is not the seaminess of Bourbon Street or South Beach.
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The geography of San Francisco is too beautiful to allow seaminess to get much of a foothold, and so along with these barkers there were many tourists afoot, tourists carrying loaves of sourdough bread and Ghirardelli chocolates.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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He had lately turned the marriage bed into a field of scurrility and seaminess.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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He had lately turned the marriage bed into a field of scurrility and seaminess.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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