sordorn.
/ˈsɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈsɔrdər/, /ˈsɔrˌdɔr/ Physical or moral sordidness.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness
squalor1621
sorditude1623
sordidness1656
squalidity1668
squalidness1727
frowziness1729
sordor1823
seediness1832
fluffiness1860
grubbiness1866
crumbiness1949
raunch1952
scruffiness1974
grunginess1978
scuzziness1980
grottiness1984
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness
mirec1400
sordidity1584
dirta1625
dirtiness1649
sordidness1656
sleaziness1727
sordor1823
seediness1852
squalor1860
sleaze1967
1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. iv. 22 The sordor of civilisation, mix'd With all the savage which man's fall hath fixed.
1836 R. W. Emerson Nature viii, in Wks. (1906) II. 173 The sordor and filths of nature.
1874 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) i. 41 The awful background of eternal destiny,..where things lose at once the sordor of common life.
1929 Oxf. Poetry 28 The world..rises and falls On a wave of confetti and funerals And sordor and stinks and stupid faces.
1934 T. S. Eliot After Strange Gods i. 17 The sordor of the half-dead mill towns of southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
1982 Observer 10 Oct. 30/8 Budd, as a kid, knew the sordor behind the glamour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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