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Sordid   /sˈɔrdəd/   Listen
adjective
Sordid  adj.  
1.
Filthy; foul; dirty. (Obs.) "A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean."
2.
Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world."
3.
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. "He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold."





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"Sordid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Grimshawe's mouth, seemed already stale. But if the two children, or either of them, happened to be in the study,—if they ran to open the door at the knock, if they came scampering and peeped down over the banisters,—the sordid and rusty gloom was apt to vanish quite away. The sunbeam itself looked like a golden rule, that had been flung down long ago, and had lain there till it was dusty and tarnished. They were cheery little imps, who ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... "It was sordid," he continued. "One wondered how the performers could be content to risk their lives for the benefit of such a small and such an undistinguished audience. There was a trapeze troupe, however, who interested me. There ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... of sordid wealth, But that which wealth can never be, Her iron frame and robust health, Are ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... the idle days left its mark upon her spirit; gradually a great many things that had seemed worth while in the old life showed their true and petty and sordid natures now; gradually the purifying waters of solitude washed her soul clean. She began to plan for the future—a future so different from ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... the spoils of another? Old Sapor, proud as he was, was more than once in the grasp of Isaac. There! it is in this case—down, you see, in the most secret part of my pack—but who would look for wealth under this sordid covering? as who, lady, for a soul within this shriveled and shattered body? yet is there one there. In such outside, both of body and bag, is my safety. Who cares to stop the poor man, or hold parley with him? None so free of the world and its high ways as he; safe alike in the streets of Rome, ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware


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