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- Dictionarysordid/ˈsɔːdɪd/
adjective
- 1. involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt: "the story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams" Similar Opposite
- 2. dirty or squalid: "the overcrowded housing conditions were sordid and degrading" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of SORDID is marked by baseness or grossness : vile. How to use sordid in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sordid.
morally wrong and shocking: He told me he'd had an affair but he spared me the sordid details. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of sordid from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) sordid | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˈsɔrd·əd / sordid adjective (MORALLY BAD)
Sordid definition: morally ignoble or base; vile. See examples of SORDID used in a sentence.
Something that is filthy or run down such as a neighborhood or someone's living conditions can be called sordid, but it is usually used figuratively to mean immoral or dishonest. If you want to hear the sordid details of someone's actions, it's because they were extremely dishonest or immoral and also because they were supposed to be kept a secret.
adj. 1. dirty, foul, or squalid. 2. degraded; vile; base: a sordid affair. 3. selfish and grasping: sordid avarice. [C16: from Latin sordidus, from sordēre to be dirty] ˈsordidly adv. ˈsordidness n.
sordid adjective (IMMORAL) morally wrong and shocking: He told me he'd had an affair but he spared me the sordid details. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Morally wrong and evil. abhorrent. abhorrently. amoral. amorality.
If you describe someone's behaviour as sordid, you mean that it is immoral or dishonest.
very dirty and unpleasant synonym squalid. people living in sordid conditions; These were the urban poor, living in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities.
Sordid Sentence Examples. For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one. Obviously they thought there was something sordid to hide. It was too ugly, too sordid, too fearful to be heroic.
What does the word sordid mean? There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word sordid, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. sordid has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. pathology (late 1500s) finance (early 1600s) Entry status.
