sordid

Definition

Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

Etymology

From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus. Alternatively from French sordide.

Example Sentences

• "The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice."
• "He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world."
• "I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues."

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