Seamy

Here in Guyana the commonplace approach to treating with seamy issues that have to do with the public image of state institutions is simply to try to sweep those issues under a rug.

The novel also paints the city’s seamy side.

This anatomy of moral cowardice and seamy self-interest watches the Republicans shrug off their principles as they surrender to Trump’s hostile takeover of their party and make “a deal with the devil”.

All the while, he has maintained a clear vision for this project, one that draws from the jangling looseness of the Byrds and the seamy force of the Velvet Underground.

The 13 track set is essentially a live recording of the group, made for the long-running radio show Part-Time Punks, and one that captures perfectly the seamy, sexy world of this music and the trio’s committed and vibrant recreations of it.

From these seamy surroundings he became street wise, with a real and lasting education.

The creator of "la littérature putride", a term of abuse invented by an early critic of Thérèse Raquin (a novel which predates Les Rougon-Macquart series), emphasizes the squalid aspects of the human environment and upon the seamy side of human nature.