What does sordid mean?
Sordid means Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible..
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/ˈsɔː.dɪd/ · adjective
Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible..
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.
I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.
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.
Leaves sordid-tomentulose beneath
Use sordid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sordid means Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible..
Common synonyms include unclean, seedy, seamy, dirty.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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