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1. (adj.) sordid
morally ignoble or base; vile.
2. sordid
meanly selfish or mercenary.
3. sordid
filthy; squalid.
Etymology: (1795–1805; < It: a mute =sordo (< L surdus deaf) +-ino -ine3)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
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 squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
2. (adj) dirty, sordid
unethical or dishonest
"dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
3. (adj) flyblown, squalid, sordid
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"
4. (adj) sordid
meanly avaricious and mercenary
"sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) sordid
filthy; foul; dirty
2. (adj) sordid
vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals
3. (adj) sordid
meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly
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Sense: (of a place etc) dirty, mean and poor
a very sordid neighbourhood.
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 Afrikaans: vuil, smerig |
 Arabic: قَذِر |
 Bulgarian: мизерен |
 Brazilian: sórdido |
 Czech: špinavý |
 German: schmutzig |
 Danish: ussel |
 Greek: άθλιος, φτωχός, εξαθλιωμέ |
 Spanish: sórdido |
 Estonian: räpane |
 Farsi: كثيف و زشت |
 Finnish: surkea |
 French: sordide |
 Hebrew: עָלוּב |
 Hindi: गंदा |
 Croatian: prljav, nečist |
 Hungarian: piszkos |
 Indonesian: kumuh |
 Icelandic: óhreinn, niðurníddur |
 Italian: sordido |
 Japanese: きたない |
 Korean: 더러운, 누추한 |
 Lithuanian: apšepęs, varganas, skurdu |
 Latvian: nožēlojams; netīrs |
 Malay: kotor |
 Dutch: vuil |
 Norwegian: snusket, skitten |
 Polish: obskurny, nędzny |
 Persian: كثيف و زشت |
 Pashto: چتل |
 Portuguese: sórdido |
 Romanian: sordid |
 Russian: убогий |
 Slovak: špinavý |
 Slovenian: umazan |
 Serbian: prljav |
 Swedish: smutsig, eländig |
 Thai: สกปรก |
 Turkish: pis, kirli |
 Taiwanese: 骯臟的 |
 Ukrainian: брудний; злиденний |
 Urdu: گندہ ، مکروہ |
 Vietnamese: bẩn thỉu, nhớp nhúa |
 Chinese: 肮脏的 |
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