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sordid
/ ˈsɔːdɪd /
adjective
- dirty, foul, or squalid
- degraded; vile; base
a sordid affair
- selfish and grasping
sordid avarice
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Derived Forms
- ˈsordidness, noun
- ˈsordidly, adverb
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Other Words From
- sordid·ly adverb
- sordid·ness noun
- un·sordid adjective
- un·sordid·ly adverb
- un·sordid·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sordid1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
The U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.”
Their relationship was messy and sordid and full of lies and jealousy and betrayal and backstabbing.
Other micro-countries have more sordid, even criminal, histories.
The sordid story of a female co-founder stripped of her title because she was harassed.
Are there larger lessons to be learned from this whole sordid tale?
When shall fond woman cease to give—when shall mean and sordid man be satisfied with something less than all she has to grant?
The expression fitted best the cruder, more sordid method of gaining possession of this woman.
By the light of the sordid knowledge that she had revealed to him he paid her back full tale.
With this political subjection one is reluctant to associate a more sordid kind of obligation.
It was amid such sordid troubles that Jess evolved the idea for her play.
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