Sordid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SORDID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• low, mean
• involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt
• dirty or squalid
• dirty, squalid
• Filthy; foul; dirty.
• Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
• Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
• morally degraded
• unethical or dishonest
• foul and run-down and repulsive
• meanly avaricious and mercenary
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• filthy

Words related to SORDID

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Words that contain SORDID

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How to use SORDID in a sentence

• She had always resented the sordid life at Cloverton.
• Indeed, the victorious missionary had to rescue his spiritual chief from a sordid prison at Sigilmasa.
• The sordid cares of narrow means are so distasteful, that I cannot contemplate them with any degree of patience.
• Surely these are not on material subjects, and indicate anything but a worldly or sordid nature.
• The little excuse there is in this favored region for a sordid devotion to toil, a journey through the State, even at flying pace, is sufficient to show.
• It was their one relief, the only thing which could distract their minds from sordid surroundings, and give them an interest beyond the blackened circle which enclosed them.
• Things of beauty, life, and color were on every side, and yet most sordid of the human race were the folk about the ranch hotel.
• What had been so terrible at first was to identify Andrew Bedient with these sordid things, so obvious and shallow.
• Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.
• The motives were too sordid, too mean, for anyone to do aught else but pass a sweeping condemnation upon the whole business.
• Vauvenargues was beset throughout the whole of his short life with the sordid and humiliating embarrassments of narrow means.
• True, but the enmity of this class, wherever it exists, is that of the most sordid, unprincipled self-interest.
• And to this sordid wretch was Catherine united for ever.
• Be sordid for yourself, but as for the money you may think needed for this case have no uneasiness.
• Arithelli shivered as she sat back on her heels on the floor, and looked round the sordid room.
• He found this original character not simple, but sordid in his appearance and economy, savage in his deportment, ferocious, illiterate, stubborn, implacable, and reserved.
• That sordid deference to a minister no longer characterized the subordinate instruments of the administration.
• The strong contrast between the sordid exterior and this dainty, hidden interior was nothing less than dramatic.
• Everyone in the Cathedral complained of the miserable and sordid way in which the services were conducted.
• Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground.
• But Crevel, incapable of understanding art, had, like all sordid souls, wanted to spend a certain sum fixed beforehand.
• They may not actually judge individuals by the sordid test of their ability to purchase ease and luxury, but they take care to meet and associate with only those who can do so.
• Confusion to those who barter the cause of their country for sordid gain.
• The common utensils, which are either mean or sordid, should be carefully removed out of sight.
• A Bourbon, thick-skulled, sordid, worn-out, again sat upon the throne, while the Great Man languished on a rock in the Atlantic.
• There is abundant reason to believe that the senior Senator from Illinois was not so sordid in his bargaining for votes as he seemed.
• Surely life was good, and never was meant to be the mean, sordid thing that too often was the lot of people like himself.

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