SORDID
\sˈɔːdɪd], \sˈɔːdɪd], \s_ˈɔː_d_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of SORDID
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
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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"
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morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
By Princeton University
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unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Filthy; foul; dirty.
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Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
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Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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Sordidness.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
