seamy

While some have sailed right past the seamy details, others have seen their careers damaged beyond repair.

The mountain ranges were bathed in sunshine and the scarred and seamy face of stern old Errigal seemed almost to smile.

It is strange, but undoubtedly true, that the English nation has no "seamy side."

He'd go through 'Frisco, and out at the far end, without so much as guessing the place had a seamy side to it.

I read him with keen interest, only wishing that he saw the seamy side of things rather less habitually.

Below this were strata of trachitic breccia and augite; the formation was then seamy to an unknown depth.