sordid
adjective
morally ignoble or base; vile.
sordidness
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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
Despite the judgment their relationship might attract from their peers, or from the more easily scandalized members of the audience, Garrel presents it without scorn or sordidness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2018
She was oddly energized by the sordidness of her task.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2016
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
