sordid

4 07 2009

Adjectives
1. (adj.) seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid;
  - morally degraded;
  - “a seedy district”; “the seamy side of life”; “sleazy characters hanging around casinos”; “sleazy storefronts with…dirt on the walls”; “the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils”; “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal”;

2. (adj.) dirty, sordid;
  - unethical or dishonest;
  - “dirty police officers”; “a sordid political campaign”;

3. (adj.) flyblown, sordid, squalid;
  - foul and run-down and repulsive;
  - “a flyblown bar on the edge of town”; “a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town”; “squalid living conditions”; “sordid shantytowns”;

4. (adj.) sordid;
  - meanly avaricious and mercenary;
  - “sordid avarice”; “sordid material interests”;

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