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sordid ['sɒ:did]

a. 肮脏的, 贪婪的, 卑鄙的, 恶劣的, 暗淡的

[医] 污色的

sordid

[ adj ]

morally degraded

<adj.all>

a seedy district

the seamy side of life

sleazy characters hanging around casinos

sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls

the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils

the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal

unethical or dishonest

<adj.all>

dirty police officers

a sordid political campaign

foul and run-down and repulsive

<adj.all>

a flyblown bar on the edge of town

a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town

squalid living conditions

sordid shantytowns

meanly avaricious and mercenary

<adj.all>

sordid avarice

sordid material interests

Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
{Swart}, a.]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]

A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
--Dryden.

2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. ``To
scorn the sordid world.'' --Milton.

3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.

He may be old,
And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J.
Denham.

"Why weren't parents told?" asked Marcia Mann, whose daughter is a sophomore. "Apparently a lot of kids knew all the sordid details.
Despite, or perhaps because of, its sordid past, Clarendon Court was much sought after when it went on the market in late June.
It is only action that will bring the whole sordid system down," he said.
"Possible witnesses have a civic and moral duty to come forward and report what they have seen or what they have heard from or about the perpetrators of this sordid incident," the grand jury stated.
Britain on Wednesday announced an agreement with Iran to pay for damage to each other's embassies in violent incidents, but insisted it made no "sordid deal" to secure the release of Britons held hostage in Lebanon.
Commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain, but unperformed for various unsavoury reasons until a 1988 concert in London, Cenci gives compact operatic form to Shelley's sordid tale of the Italian Renaissance.
Subsequently, Mr. Levchenko became increasingly disillusioned with the sordid aspects of espionage and bitter at the insensitivity and brutality of his superiors.

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