SORDID as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • meanly avaricious and mercenary
   Usage Example(s)
   • sordid avarice
   • sordid material interests
   Similar To
   • acquisitive (what does acquisitive mean?)
2. Meaning
   • foul and run-down and repulsive
   Synonym(s)
   • flyblown (what does flyblown mean?)
   • squalid (what does squalid mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a flyblown bar on the edge of town
   • a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
   • squalid living conditions
   • sordid shantytowns
   Similar To
   • dirty (what does dirty mean?)
   • soiled (what does soiled mean?)
   • unclean (what does unclean mean?)
3. Meaning
   • unethical or dishonest
   Synonym(s)
   • dirty (what does dirty mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • dirty police officers
   • a sordid political campaign
   Similar To
   • corrupt (what does corrupt mean?)
4. Meaning
   • morally degraded
   Synonym(s)
   • seamy (what does seamy mean?)
   • seedy (what does seedy mean?)
   • sleazy (what does sleazy mean?)
   • squalid (what does squalid mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
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   Similar To
   • disreputable (what does disreputable mean?)