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”
Synonyms
seamy
seedy
sleazy
squalid
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disreputable
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baseness
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contemptibility
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sleaziness
unethical or dishonest; “dirty police officers”; “a sordid political campaign”; “shoddy business practices”
Synonyms
dirty
shoddy
Similar to
corrupt
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baseness
sordidness
contemptibility
despicableness
despicability
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”
Synonyms
flyblown
squalid
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dirty
soiled
unclean
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squalidness
meanly avaricious and mercenary; “sordid avarice”; “sordid material interests”