sordid

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest)

  1. Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
  2. Dirty or squalid.
  3. Morally degrading.
    • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
      He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
    • 1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number:
      I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
    • 2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
      It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.
  4. Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
  5. Of a dull colour.

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Translations

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Anagrams

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Estonian

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Noun

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sordid

  1. nominative plural of sort

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sordide, from Latin sordidus.

Adjective

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sordid m or n (feminine singular sordidă, masculine plural sordizi, feminine and neuter plural sordide)

  1. sordid

Declension

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