Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being sordid.
- noun Baseness; vileness; depravity.
- noun Mean, mercenary selfishness or covetousness: as, the sordidness of gambling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sordid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
sordid . - noun countable The result or product of being
sordid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- noun sordid dirtiness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even the food at meals had that awful dreary sordidness which is so repulsive to a young thing coming from abroad.
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No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence.
Chapter VIII 2010
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We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty.
Monster of Marriage 2010
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For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered.
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* Addressing the dinner guests, Rabbi Jacob Rothschild said, “You gather to honor a man but you honor a city as well, a Southern city that has risen above the sordidness of hate and prejudice.”
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Nowhere do we find more vividly portrayed the psychology of the persons that lived in that turbulent period embraced between the years 1912 and 1932 -- their mistakes and ignorance, their doubts and fears and misapprehensions, their ethical delusions, their violent passions, their inconceivable sordidness and selfishness.
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We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty.
Monster of Marriage 2010
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Francisco, with its restless shipping, belching factories, and thundering traffic, did not confuse her; instead, she comprehended swiftly the pitiful sordidness of Twenty Mile and the skin-lodged
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All about me were still the same sordidness and wretchedness, and up above me was still the same paradise waiting to be gained; but the ladder whereby to climb was a different one.
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Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.
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