sordid
4 07 2009Adjectives
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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