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 needed the contrast of the vision to make her see the sordidness and squalor—the grim reality—of that long dark room, with its chaos of noise, its nerve-destroying "speed."

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert