sordidly

IPA: sˈɔrdʌdɫi

Examples of "sordidly" in Sentences

I am sordidly debating within myself … the perennial question ...
A sordidly materialistic Jewish figure in her novel "David Golder" 1929 made her famous.
It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits.
The Clintons, especially Bill, is owed a profound and genuine apology for the race card so sordidly played against him. —
No withered old maid, she also had another man-a-courtin 'before she picked Georgie Porgie, wealthy and renowned Virginia planter Charles Carter, who sordidly wrote his brother how he desired to "arouse a flame in her breast."
He found such novels deeply implausible, as most of the espionage agents he knew were far too busy having sex with each other, or fiddling their expense accounts, ever to engage in anything so sordidly middle-class as actually spying on one another.
But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the center of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality.