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Перевод: seamy

[прилагательное]
со швами; покрытый швами; неприглядный; неприличный; неприятный

Тезаурус:

1. She was a tough girl with an abrasive manner, and seemed very knowledgeable about the seamy side of life.
2. Sitting in this seamy room one evening waiting for the meeting to begin, I was startled by my friend exclaiming, "My God, there's a man coming up the stairs."
3. Ranulf sprang up, pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar.
4. She would go into seamy dives, sitting there, listening, consoling.
5. His thin, pale face contorted as he said, Well, I shan't go into the seamy details the more basic facets of life, but on a cleaner if more frustrating theme, I have been trying to seduce that lovely Dickson boy over the last week.
6. Goldin is best known for her 1986 book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, an account of her intimates in the seamy Seventies nightlife of New York and Provincetown.
7. Until recently when I went to a conference on security in libraries and other collections I had not the slightest knowledge of the seamy side of that world or any idea that it had one.
8. I wouldn't have believed you could have told me anything I didn't know about the seamy side of life in this town.
9. His installations, such as Roxy's, which features decapitated whores with mechanical pelvic movements in a brothel, and The Back Seat Dodge - "38, which puts its viewers in the place of voyeurs of a necking couple whose heads are melted into one, deal naturalistically with the seamy and discarded side of social life.
10. Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler's revelations about the seamy underbelly of England's public life rocked the government and effectively ended the Tory Party patriarchy: "The upper-class image of Mr Macmillan himself had acted as a catalyst for all the aggression that was to unleash the New England of Mr Wilson and the Beatles."
11. Some sociology in the USA was therefore understandably characterised by detailed empirical studies of a variety of areas (particularly the more "seamy" side) of American social life - of delinquent gangs and neighbourhoods, of particular ethnic minorities etc. - though other work, led by Talcott Parsons, involved theorising in the traditional grand manner.
12. Become embroiled in a seamy sex scandal.
13. This tiny detail in Reading's long history somehow epitomises its allegiance with a seamy, downbeat, quintessentially British rock tradition and would logically result in its gradual submission to the horrors of wall-to-wall heavy metal, bottle-battles and snapshots of birds-wiv-their-jugs-aht in the programme.