sordid
11sordid — [sôr′did] adj. [Fr sordide < L sordidus < sordes, filth < IE base * swordo(s) , black, dirty > SWARTHY, Ger schwarz] 1. a) dirty; filthy b) squalid; depressingly wretched 2. c) base; ignoble; mean …
12sordid — [[t]sɔ͟ː(r)dɪd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone s behaviour as sordid, you mean that it is immoral or dishonest. He sat with his head buried in his hands as his sordid double life was revealed... I don t want to hear the… …
13sordid — sor|did [ˈso:dıd US ˈso:r ] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: sordidus, from sordes dirt ] 1.) involving immoral or dishonest behaviour sordid business/affair/story etc ▪ The whole sordid affair came out in the press. ▪ She discovered the… …
14sordid — adjective 1 involving immoral or dishonest behaviour: sordid political motives | sordid details: She revealed all the sordid details of her affair with Pascal. 2 very dirty and unpleasant; squalid (1): a sordid little room at the top of the house …
15sordid — sor|did [ sɔrdıd ] adjective 1. ) immoral, dishonest, or unpleasant: I don t want to know all the sordid details. a sordid secret/story/affair 2. ) dirty and ugly: a run down apartment on a sordid street …
16sordid — UK [ˈsɔː(r)dɪd] / US [ˈsɔrdɪd] adjective 1) immoral, dishonest, or unpleasant I don t want to know all the sordid details. a sordid secret/story/affair 2) dirty and ugly a shabby boarding house in a sordid street …
17sordid — sordidly, adv. sordidness, n. /sawr did/, adj. 1. morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods. 2. meanly selfish, self seeking, or mercenary. 3. dirty or filthy. 4. squalid; wretchedly poor and run down: sordid housing. [1590 1600; < L sordidus …
18sordid — adjective 1) a sordid love affair Syn: sleazy, dirty, seedy, seamy, unsavory, tawdry, cheap, debased, degenerate, dishonorable, disreputable, discreditable, contemptible, ignominious, shameful, abhorrent …
19sordid — adjective Etymology: Latin sordidus, from sordes dirt more at swart Date: 1606 1. marked by baseness or grossness ; vile < sordid motives > 2. a. dirty, filthy b. wretched, squalid …
20sordid — See morbid. See morbid, sordid …
