sordid
adjective
- dirty; filthy
- squalid; depressingly wretched
- base; ignoble; mean
- mercenary, avaricious, grasping, or meanly selfish
See sordid in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(sôrˈdĭd)
adjective- Filthy or dirty; foul.
- Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns.
- Morally degraded: “The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils” (James Joyce). See Synonyms at mean2.
- Exceedingly mercenary; grasping.
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