Thesaurus: sordid
Filthy; foul; dirty.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- a. Filthy; foul; dirty.
- a. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
- a. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
- adj. morally degraded
- adj. unethical or dishonest
- adj. foul and run-down and repulsive
- adj. meanly avaricious and mercenary
- 1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. Sir J. Denham.
- j:100 s. meanly avaricious and mercenary