sordid

The definition of sordid is something dirty, squalid or morally distasteful.

(adjective)

  1. When someone is living in a filthy apartment with bugs everywhere, this is an example of living in sordid conditions.
  2. A morally objectionable pornographic film is an example of a sordid film.

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See sordid in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

    1. dirty; filthy
    2. squalid; depressingly wretched
    1. base; ignoble; mean
    2. mercenary, avaricious, grasping, or meanly selfish

Origin: Fr sordide < L sordidus < sordes, filth < IE base *swordo(s)-, black, dirty > swarthy, Ger schwarz

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See sordid in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Filthy or dirty; foul.
  2. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns.
  3. Morally degraded: “The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils” (James Joyce). See Synonyms at mean2.
  4. Exceedingly mercenary; grasping.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English sordide, festering, purulent

Origin: , from Latin sordidus, dirty

Origin: , from sordēre, to be dirty

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Related Forms:

  • sorˈdid·ly adverb
  • sorˈdid·ness noun

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