sordid
IPA: sˈɔrdʌd
adjective
- Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
- Dirty or squalid.
- Morally degrading.
- Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
- Of a dull colour.
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Examples of "sordid" in Sentences
- Does anyone remember the sordid details
- They reveal more of the man's sordid life.
- I'll fill you in on all the sordid details.
- Read that song's article for the sordid details.
- Three years passed in sordid struggle and disappointment.
- Mentioning all the sordid details would be sensationalist.
- This was recent news, and I recall the sordid events well.
- The redemption of sordid humanity is unfortunately beyond us.
- His vices were rather of the sordid than of the satanic order.
- It makes the articles look ridiculous, unprofessional, and sordid.
- The link between Islam and this sordid affair is only superficial.
- 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.