sordid
adjective
morally ignoble or base; vile.
sordidness
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a word derived from
sordid.
Example Sentences
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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
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
He was losing sight of the romance of poverty, in the realisation of its sordidness.
From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young
