SORDID

sordid

(adjective) meanly avaricious and mercenary; “sordid avarice”; “sordid material interests”

flyblown, squalid, sordid

(adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive; “a flyblown bar on the edge of town”; “a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town”; “squalid living conditions”; “sordid shantytowns”

dirty, sordid, shoddy

(adjective) unethical or dishonest; “dirty police officers”; “a sordid political campaign”; “shoddy business practices”

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

(adjective) morally degraded; “a seedy district”; “the seamy side of life”; “sleazy characters hanging around casinos”; “sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls”- Seattle Weekly; “the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils”- James Joyce; “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

sordid (comparative sordider, )

Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

Dirty or squalid.

Morally degrading.

Grasping; stingy; avaricious.

Of a dull colour.

Synonyms

• See also greedy

Anagrams

• 'droids, disord, dorids, droids

Source: Wiktionary

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Sor"did, a. Etym: [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See Swart, a.]

1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton.

3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. Sir J. Denham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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