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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
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
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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