The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!sordidsor‧did /ˈsɔːdɪd $ ˈsɔːr-/ adjective 
The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!2very dirty and unpleasant SYN squalid: a sordid little room
WORD ORIGINsordid
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin sordidus, from sordes ‘dirt’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a sordid crime
- the sordid slums of modern cities
- The details of their affair were sordid and ugly.
- All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair.
- But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities.
- Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect, and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends.
- It awed me by how beautiful it could still appear in that sordid place.
- Out of this sordid mix of political short-sightedness and commercial greed, no government emerges with clean hands.
- Their sordid dormitory was attacked by hooligans.
- They asked him all the questions he had dreaded, and tried to make the relationship sound ugly and sordid.
- Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1involving immoral or dishonest behavioursordid business/affair/story etc The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!· George Broomham was questioned, but only briefly, before he admitted the whole sordid affair.· All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair.· To drag me into her sordid affairs.
· Her own sordid story could only be a bad influence on such a young and impressionable mind.· It is a mildly sordid story.
The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!2very dirty and unpleasant SYN squalid: a sordid little room