seamy side

The seamy side of British democracy was appropriately symbolized.

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.

She is to write a series of articles dealing with the seamy side of Grey Town life and her methods of reforming the riff-raff.

This is, however, but taking the seamy side, and the humbler side.