sordid

Adjective

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. meanly avaricious and mercenary; “sordid avarice”; “sordid material interests”
   • Similar to
     • acquisitive
   • Related
     • baseness
     • sordidness
     • contemptibility
     • despicableness
     • despicability

The following are the words that are in the New Word Project:

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The definition for this word taken from the Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. If you are interested in how I created this resource and how I add new words to it, you can see my blog post Title of Blog Post.