sordid
adjective
morally ignoble or base; vile.
sordidness
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a word derived from
sordid.
Example Sentences
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His palatial property overlooks the old wells where he’d made his fortune, but by the end of the story, Marlowe sees figurative as well as literal sordidness among its remnants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Preferences continue if the sordidness is obscured by a semantic fog.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
It was probably the contrast between them and the recent comfort he had enjoyed that forced home the sordidness of the present life.
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
