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sordid
[sawr-did]
adjective
morally ignoble or base; vile.
sordid methods.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms:meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary.
Synonyms: , , ,Antonyms:dirty or filthy.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms:squalid; wretchedly poor and run-down.
sordid housing.
sordid
/ ˈ²õɔ˻åɪ»å /
adjective
dirty, foul, or squalid
degraded; vile; base
a sordid affair
selfish and grasping
sordid avarice
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- sordidly adverb
- sordidness noun
- unsordid adjective
- unsordidly adverb
- unsordidness noun
- ˈ²õ´Ç°ù»å¾±»å²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
- ˈ²õ´Ç°ù»å¾±»å±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of sordid1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Those fingers come with a long, skeletal middle digit equipped with a ball-and-socket joint for horrifying dexterity, like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come beckoning Ebenezer Scrooge to gaze upon his own sordid death.
Defense attorney Leonard Levine has argued that prosecutors are focusing too much on the sordid details of his client’s affair, which is not in and of itself evidence that she plotted a killing.
Moseby doesn’t enter the story with any sort of idealism and yet he is still unmoored by just how cynical, sordid and despicable the world he is drawn into turns out to be.
Braxton: Considering Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s sordid past, it’s a bit unsettling to see his son play someone who is self-absorbed and fancies himself a ladies’ man.
But the computer, whose trove of data contained sordid details of Hunter Biden's private life and raised questions about his business dealings, was real.
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