Example Sentences

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Fennell continues to have a gift for exposing the sordidness of money and power.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

But on “Housewives”? This level of sordidness is not what viewers are here for.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

She was oddly energized by the sordidness of her task.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2016

There is no time when the human race shows itself in such beauty and in such heartless sordidness as in the time of grief.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton