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[ adjective ] morally degraded
Examples "a seedy district" "the seamy side of life" "sleazy characters hanging around casinos" "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently , too , for his audience , who could indulge in moral indignation without visible , or even conscious , discomfort , their money from the transaction having been put_away long_ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ) . (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)No amount of ballyhoo will cover_up the sordid facts . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] meanly avaricious and mercenary
Examples "sordid avarice" "sordid material interests" Related terms |
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