sordidness

Related to sordidness: quarrelsome, imposing, sedulously

sor·did

(sôr′dĭd)

adj.

1. Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce). See Synonyms at base².

a. Dirty or filthy: sordid clothing.

b. Squalid or wretched: a sordid tenement.

[Middle English sordide, festering, purulent, from Latin sordidus, dirty, from sordēre, to be dirty.]

sor′did·ly adv.

sor′did·ness n.

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Noun	1.	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

قَذارَه، دناءَه

špinavost

usselhed

Schmutzigkeit

sordidité

mocskosság

sóîaskapur; auîvirîileiki

snusk

alçaklıkpislik

卑鄙贫困

sordidness

[ˈsɔːdɪdnɪs] N → sordidez f, lo miserable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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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sordid

(ˈsoːdid) adjective

1. (of a place etc) dirty, mean and poor. a very sordid neighbourhood.

2. (of a person's behaviour etc) showing low standards or ideals etc; not very pleasant or admirable. The whole affair was rather sordid.

ˈsordidly adverb

ˈsordidness noun

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Out of all this sordidness and mystery there remained at least something in life for him to do.

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The grime and sordidness of the House of the Seven Gables seemed to have vanished since her appearance there; the gnawing tooth of the dry-rot was stayed among the old timbers of its skeleton frame; the dust had ceased to settle down so densely, from the antique ceilings, upon the floors and furniture of the rooms below,--or, at any rate, there was a little housewife, as light-footed as the breeze that sweeps a garden walk, gliding hither and thither to brush it all away.

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He knew some who had dragged along for twenty years in the pursuit of a fame which always escaped them till they sunk into sordidness and alcoholism.

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He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.

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Oh, you self-satisfied persons who, in your unctuous pride, are forever ready to mouth your maxims--if only you knew how fully I myself comprehend the sordidness of my present state, you would not trouble to wag your tongues at me!

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Rose had always believed love a breath of beauty that would hold its purity even in a hovel, but she had not been prepared for the sordidness that seemed to envelop her as she crossed the threshold of the first home of her married life.

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If you don't tell him he will never notice, and I simply couldn't think of him living in the terrible squalor and sordidness which Mr.

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The infinite dreariness and sordidness of their life oppressed him in spite of his fundamental belief that, as a family, they were somehow remarkable.

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No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence.

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He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness.

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1932--their mistakes and ignorance, their doubts and fears and misapprehensions, their ethical delusions, their violent passions, their inconceivable sordidness and selfishness.

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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.