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sordid

[ sawr-did ]

adjective

  1. morally ignoble or base; vile:

    sordid methods.

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  2. meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary.

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  3. dirty or filthy.

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  4. squalid; wretchedly poor and run-down:

    sordid housing.



sordid

/ ˈɔːɪ /

adjective

  1. dirty, foul, or squalid
  2. degraded; vile; base

    a sordid affair

  3. selfish and grasping

    sordid avarice

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǰ徱Ա, noun
  • ˈǰ徱, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • ǰd· adverb
  • ǰd·Ա noun
  • ܲ·ǰd adjective
  • un·ǰd· adverb
  • un·ǰd·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sordid1

1590–1600; from Latin sordidus, equivalent to ǰ(ŧ) “dirt” + -idus -id 4
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sordid1

C16: from Latin sordidus, from ǰŧ to be dirty
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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

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Defense attorney Leonard Levine has argued that prosecutors are focusing too much on the sordid details of his client’s affair, which is not in and of itself evidence that she plotted a killing.

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Moseby doesn’t enter the story with any sort of idealism and yet he is still unmoored by just how cynical, sordid and despicable the world he is drawn into turns out to be.

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Braxton: Considering Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s sordid past, it’s a bit unsettling to see his son play someone who is self-absorbed and fancies himself a ladies’ man.

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But the computer, whose trove of data contained sordid details of Hunter Biden's private life and raised questions about his business dealings, was real.

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It seems he really did believe he could build something which would one day transcend Shwe Kokko's sordid origins as a scam city.

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