单词 | sordidly |
释义 | sordidlyadv. In a sordid manner; basely, meanly; mercenarily. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adverb] > and mean sordidly1645 squalidlya1704 grubbily1934 scruffily1977 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adverb] > in a sordid manner sordidly1645 seedily1909 sleazily1959 (a) in combination.1682 H. More in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (ed. 2) 41 A Church all over besmeared with Sordidly-gainful Superstitions.(b)1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xiv. 162 A Poet..sordidly apparelled; with his Cloaths all tattered.1660 R. Blome Fanatick Hist. i. 5 He made holiness to consist in speaking little, and living homely and sordidly.1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxi. 86 This Osman was a man..of excesse of courage, but sordidly covetous. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) iv. 123 Some came sordidly with the Price or Present in their hands to buy the Bishoprick. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. vii. 27 The most sordidly ridiculous anecdote we remember of a bed-chamber. 1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 237 That Cockburn was sordidly selfish for the promotion of any interests of his. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adv.1645 |
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