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Definition of Seamiest
1. seamy [adj] - See also: seamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seamiest
Literary usage of Seamiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1880)
"He is the seamiest and frailest of classies in our poetry, but he is a classic.
And now, after Gray, we are met, as we draw towards the end of the ..."
2. Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"... cabarets, and saw life on its seamiest side, whether in Germany, Austria,
France, or England. Such experiences produced their inevitable reaction ..."
3. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"It is, by the way, doubtless because the Beacon Street mall is no thoroughfare
that one sees upon it the seamiest side of human life on the Common. ..."
4. British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in by William Henry Koebel (1917)
"It did not hold good in those whose livelihood depended directly on the traffic
in the bodies of the Africans. Here, indeed, was the seamiest side ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1855)
"Improvements in the manufacture of seamiest garments or other useful articles of
felt. (A communication.) Patent dated April 25, 1855. (No. 930. ..."
6. British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in by William Henry Koebel (1917)
"Here, indeed, was the seamiest side of the slave trade. It is likely enough that,
if the bulk of the slave-owning population could have witnessed its more ..."
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