Definition of sordid Sordid
/sɔˈɹdʌd/ - [sordud] - sor•did
We found 12 definitions of sordid from 5 different sources.
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Adjectivesordid, sordidder, sordiddest |
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| sordid - meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests" | ||
| acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" | ||
| sordid - 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" | ||
| seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid | ||
| disreputable lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance | ||
| sordid - 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" | ||
| flyblown, squalid | ||
| soiled, unclean, dirty having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 | ||
| sordid - unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" | ||
| dirty | ||
| corrupt lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sordid (a.)
Filthy; foul; dirty. - sordid (a.)
Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. - sordid (a.)
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sordid
sor′did, adj. dirty, squalid: of a dull colour: morally foul, vile: mean: meanly avaricious.—n. Sor′des, filth, foul accretions on the teeth in low forms of fever.—adv. Sor′didly.—ns. Sor′didness, state of being sordid; Sor′dor, filth, dregs. [Fr. sordide—L. sordidus—sordēre, to be dirty.]
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