sordidness
- a word derived from sordid.
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 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
But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
But when youth had fled there ceased to be romance, and only sordidness was forthcoming.
From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.
