sordid
morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary.
dirty or filthy.
squalid; wretchedly poor and run-down: sordid housing.
Origin of sordid
1synonym study For sordid
Other words for sordid
1 | degraded, depraved |
2 | avaricious, tight, close, stingy |
3 | soiled, unclean, foul |
Opposites for sordid
Other words from sordid
- sor·did·ly, adverb
- sor·did·ness, noun
- un·sor·did, adjective
- un·sor·did·ly, adverb
- un·sor·did·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with sordid
- sordid , sorted
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How to use sordid in a sentence
For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which, sordidly speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's.
Roads of Destiny | O. HenryIf stage remuneration has decreased sordidly in our time for authorship, it has increased splendidly for actorship.
My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Wilkie CollinsHow drear and sordidly selfish, poor and unprofitable existence seems to him then.
Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science | Hudson TuttleHer brother was sordidly wicked,--a hoary ruffian, to whom the language of pity was as unintelligible as the gabble of monkeys.
Edgar Huntley | Charles Brockden BrownAbove, men in dirty shirt-sleeves lolled out of the grimy windows, where long festoons of half-washed clothes drooped sordidly.
The Decadent | Ralph Adams Cram
British Dictionary definitions for sordid
/ (ˈsɔːdɪd) /
dirty, foul, or squalid
degraded; vile; base: a sordid affair
selfish and grasping: sordid avarice
Origin of sordid
1Derived forms of sordid
- sordidly, adverb
- sordidness, noun
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