sordid

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sordid Definition

• (s) 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
• (s) unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
• (s) 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"
• (s) meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

sordid Synonyms

• dirty
• flyblown
• seamy
• seedy
• sleazy
• sordid
• squalid