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List of meaning for sordid

very bad or dirty

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid(adj)

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"

dirty, sordid(adj)

unethical or dishonest

"dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

flyblown, squalid, sordid(adj)

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"

sordid(adj)

meanly avaricious and mercenary

"sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

not clean

he managed to rise above the sordid streets upon which he grew up

not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency

a sordid affair involving bribery and corruption in high places

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