Lexic.us

Definition of Sordid

1. Adjective. Morally degraded. "The squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

2. Adjective. Unethical or dishonest. "A sordid political campaign"

3. Adjective. Foul and run-down and repulsive. "Sordid shantytowns"

4. Adjective. Meanly avaricious and mercenary. "Sordid material interests"

Definition of Sordid

1. a. Filthy; foul; dirty.

Definition of Sordid

1. Adjective. Dirty or squalid. ¹

2. Adjective. Morally degrading. ¹

3. Adjective. Grasping. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sordid

1. filthy [adj] : SORDIDLY [adv] - See also: filthy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sordid

sorcerised sorcerises sorcerising sorcerize sorcerized sorcerizes sorcerizing sorceror sorcerors sorcerous

sorcerously sorcery sord sorda sordes sordid (current term) sordider sordidest sordidity sordidly

sordidness sordidnesses sordine sordines sordini sordino sordo sordor sordors sords

Literary usage of Sordid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"If one should cease to be generous and charitable, because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian ..."

2. The Lancet (1842)
"Well, Sir, the resident practitioners were discarded, medical clubs were established, the most sordid modes of treating disease were adopted by the needy ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(2) advanced age, to the empire ; but his merit was rather useful than shining, and his virtues were disgraced by a strict and even sordid parsimony. ..."

4. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"BASE, LO\V, sordid; PALTRY, SORRY, POOR. THESE wretched epithets would be perfectly ... muft however ¡earn to be sordid, ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1893)
"Clypeus, labrum and thoracic shield a tawny olive colour ; head a seal brown ; body a sordid straw colour. The tubercles proportionately smaller and the ..."

Other Resources: