Found 2 items, similar to sordid.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sordid
sordid
adj 1: 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” [syn:
seamy,
seedy,
sleazy,
squalid]
2: unethical or dishonest;
“dirty police officers”;
“a sordid
political campaign” [syn:
dirty]
3: 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” [syn:
flyblown,
squalid]
4: meanly avaricious and mercenary;
“sordid avarice”;
“sordid
material interests”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sordid
Sordid
\Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
Swart, a.]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
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A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
--Dryden.
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2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
“To
scorn the sordid world.” --Milton.
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3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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He may be old,
And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J.
Denham.
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