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Another word for sordid

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sordid

modif.

ignoble, corrupt, dirty, squalid; see dirty 1, mean 1, shameful 1, 2. See syn. study at mean.

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adjective

Having or proceeding from low moral standards:

base², ignoble, low, low-down, mean², squalid, vile. See right

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For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one.
Obviously they thought there was something sordid to hide.
His vices were rather of the sordid than of the satanic order.
It was not a reaction the Deans expected when Effie read the sordid confirmation her great aunt was a prostitute and carrying on an adulterous affair.
Among these were to be found the most sordid opportunism and the most heroic self-effacement, the crassest supernaturalism and - the loftiest conceptions of practical morality.

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