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[ sawr-did ] / ˈsɔr dɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sordid ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivemorally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods. meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary. dirty or filthy. squalid; wretchedly poor and run-down: sordid housing. Origin of sordid1590–1600; from Latin sordidus, equivalent to sord(ēs) “dirt” + -idus-id4 SYNONYMS FOR sordid1 degraded, depraved. 2 avaricious, tight, close, stingy. 3 soiled, unclean, foul. SEE SYNONYMS FOR sordid ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR sordid1 honorable. 2 generous. 3 clean. SEE ANTONYMS FOR sordid ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for sordid1. See mean2. OTHER WORDS FROM sordidsor·did·ly, adverbsor·did·ness, nounun·sor·did, adjectiveun·sor·did·ly, adverb un·sor·did·ness, noun WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH sordidsordid , sortedWords nearby sordidsorcerous, sorcery, sord, Sordello, sordes, sordid, sordino, sore, soredial, soredium, sorehead Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sordidThe U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.” The X Factor of Sex Invades Britain: Rebecca More’s ‘Sex Tour’ Enrages UK Politicians|Marlow Stern|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Their relationship was messy and sordid and full of lies and jealousy and betrayal and backstabbing. How to Get Away With Gayness: Shonda Rhimes Kills TV’s Sex Stereotypes|Kevin Fallon|September 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST The sordid story of a female co-founder stripped of her title because she was harassed. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, July 6, 2014|The Daily Beast|July 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the sordid tale now runs far deeper still and has already begun jeopardizing lives in Cuba, Mexico, and Miami. MLB’s Next Headache: Cartels, Gangsters, and Their Cuban Superstars|Peter C. Bjarkman|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Still, there were those trying to end this sordid special relationship. Britain’s KGB Sugar Daddy|Michael Weiss|March 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST It was not an easy business to let any glimmer of spiritual light in upon the darkness of that sordid mind. Fenton's Quest|M. E. Braddon Does that look as if I tried to hoax the world for sordid gain, as my enemies would like the public to believe? My Attainment of the Pole|Frederick A. Cook As their homes by neglect have grown shabby and squalid, so their industry has become calculating and sordid. Change in the Village|(AKA George Bourne) George Sturt And your babies are the most irresistible angels that ever came to bless and—enliven—a sordid world. Eve to the Rescue|Ethel Hueston What did it matter what other men, estimating him by their own sordid standards, said of him? The Unspeakable Perk|Samuel Hopkins Adams
British Dictionary definitions for sordid
adjectivedirty, foul, or squalid degraded; vile; basea sordid affair selfish and graspingsordid avarice Derived forms of sordidsordidly, adverbsordidness, nounWord Origin for sordidC16: from Latin sordidus, from sordēre to be dirty Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sordiddisreputable, vile, nasty, shameful, sleazy, squalid, abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dowdy, filthy, foul |