sordid
Adjective
- 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
- Similar to
- disreputable
- Related
- sordidness
- squalor
- squalidness
- baseness
- sordidness
- contemptibility
- despicableness
- despicability
- sleaziness
- Synonyms
- unethical or dishonest; “dirty police officers”; “a sordid political campaign”; “shoddy business practices”
- Synonyms
- dirty
- shoddy
- Similar to
- corrupt
- Related
- baseness
- sordidness
- contemptibility
- despicableness
- despicability
- Synonyms
- 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
- Similar to
- dirty
- soiled
- unclean
- Related
- sordidness
- squalor
- squalidness
- sordidness
- squalor
- squalidness
- Synonyms
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; “sordid avarice”; “sordid material interests”
- Similar to
- acquisitive
- Related
- baseness
- sordidness
- contemptibility
- despicableness
- despicability
- Similar to
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