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sordidly, adv.|ˈsɔːdɪdlɪ|
[f. sordid a. + -ly2.]
In a sordid manner; basely, meanly; mercenarily.
(a)c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 148 This Osman was a man..of excess of courage, but sordidly covetous. 1682Burnet Rights Princes iv. 123 Some came sordidly with the Price or Present in their hands to buy the Bishoprick. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. vii. 27 The most sordidly ridiculous anecdote we remember of a bed-chamber. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 237 That Cockburn was sordidly selfish for the promotion of any interests of his.
Comb.1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (1726) 471 A church all over besmear'd with Sordidly-gainful Superstitions.
(b)1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xiv. (1674) 162 A Poet..sordidly apparelled; with his Cloaths all tattered. 1660R. Blome Fanatick Hist. i. 5 He made holiness to consist in speaking little, and living homely and sordidly. |