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sordidness

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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sordidness - sordid dirtiness
squalidness, squalor
dirtiness, uncleanness - the state of being unsanitary
2.sordidness - unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness
unworthiness - the quality or state of lacking merit or value
Translations
sordidness [ˈsɔːdɪdnɪs] N → sordidez f, lo miserable
sordidness
n → Ekligkeit f; (of place, room also) → Verkommenheit f; (of motive) → Schmutzigkeit f, → Niedrigkeit f, → Gemeinheit f; (of conditions, life, story) → Elend nt, → Erbärmlichkeit f; (of crime) → Gemeinheit f; (of affair) → Schmutzigkeit f


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The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Still, I have seen ships issue from certain docks like half-dead prisoners from a dungeon, bedraggled, overcome, wholly disguised in dirt, and with their men rolling white eyeballs in black and worried faces raised to a heaven which, in its smoky and soiled aspect, seemed to reflect the sordidness of the earth below.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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