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His judgment has not been flawless: Mr. Gelb admits that retiring the lavish Zeffirelli “Tosca” was a mistake, since the sordidly modern Luc Bondy staging that succeeded it was generally savaged by audiences and critics.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2019

What they were selling purported to be an alternative to a sordidly commercial food industry.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2017

Brooks films the action in sharply defined images with spare and aggressive angles, conjuring the inner howls of conflicting desires tearing Steve and the sordidly glossy milieu apart during even the simplest of events.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 13, 2016

Through the fourth wall of a miserable millworker's hut in a steel town the audience is permitted to gaze at one of the most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ugliest thing about these stories was that they were all sordidly true.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith