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Sordidly

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sor·did  (sôrdd)
adj.
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.
[Middle English sordide, festering, purulent, from Latin sordidus, dirty, from sordre, to be dirty.]
sordid·ly adv.
sordid·ness n.
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Adv.1.sordidly - in a sordid or squalid way
squalidly
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What he said seemed so simple and so easy, so sure of success, that none could be so sordidly attached to this earth as to hesitate to follow the three travelers on their lunar expedition.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Theatrical society, rather than the theatre, has made the lives of actors as we see them in these volumes, in many cases so tragic, even sordidly tragic.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
I owe it to myself, that I, a friendless, portionless, girl, with a blight upon my name, should not give your friends reason to suspect that I had sordidly yielded to your first passion, and fastened myself, a clog, on all your hopes and projects.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
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