sordidness
- a word derived from sordid.
Example Sentences
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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
The Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022
The dining room was a festive place, but the kitchen was almost Dickensian in its sordidness and gloom.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
That earth-born sordidness which marked all slaves as common chattels, was being burnt out of our national life, as our basest national sin.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
