sordid
Collocations
5ADJ.
degenerate, insensible, vulgar
VERB + SORDID
hates, know, lined, resists, sounds
SORDID + NOUN
affair, dwellings, room, stories, task, you'll
PREP.
in, into
ADV.
hopelessly
Definitions
adj
Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
Of a dull colour.
Leaves sordid-tomentulose beneath
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Idioms & Phrases
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6The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining h
WiktionaryHe rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproa
WiktionaryI know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
WiktionaryCan you understand why they have to pig it in one sordid room?
Tatoeba · #2710862Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.
Tatoeba · #3573306Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.
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