sordid

IPA: sˈɔrdʌd

Examples of "sordid" in Sentences

Three years passed in sordid struggle and disappointment.
The majority of the world's people live in sordid conditions, deprived of basic necessities.
It’s all very fine in its way, but somehow it’s what I call sordid and the port is terrible.
Around this time, notice, he didn't give specific dates as he's, you know, recalling his sordid history he didn't give specific dates.
As a result of the grand jury's report on what it called "sordid, shocking acts," Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary of the clergy in the Archdiocese, faces charges of child endangerment.
DALLAS - Texas prosecutors on Thursday abruptly ended a three-year criminal probe into what they called a sordid small-town swinger's club where children as young as 5 were forced into performing sex.
Russian literature, faced with the realities of modern life, a spirit titanic and in clash with its material, and produced in the mastery of this every-day material, commonly called sordid, a phantasmagoria intense with beauty.
The nomad and romantic in him, troubled and restless with Ukrainian myth, legend, and song, impressed upon Russian literature, faced with the realities of modern life, a spirit titanic and in clash with its material, and produced in the mastery of this every-day material, commonly called sordid, a phantasmagoria intense with beauty.