There comes a purpose to stop the world being so sordid, to help the people rather than dismiss them. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
sordid avarice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Three years passed in sordid struggle and disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
The majority of the world's people live in sordid conditions, deprived of basic necessities. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy in India] Reference
It’s all very fine in its way, but somehow it’s what I call sordid and the port is terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
• Après-ski that could be described as sordid and tacky. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
If any band's past can be called sordid, perhaps it's the Happy Clams '. From Wordnik.com. Reference
If you can recall the sordid scenario and silly media circus which surrounded the tawdry. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
Washburn called the sordid details about David Jansen's escapades with women he met at a strip club "revealing.". From Wordnik.com. [WSBTV.com - Local News] Reference
Around this time, notice, he didn't give specific dates as he's, you know, recalling his sordid history he didn't give specific dates. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2009] Reference
A lot of other words come to mind, but "sordid" isn't one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Can Franken Win? Yes, He Could. Maybe.] Reference
Still, all packaged together, for me the whole thing felt kind of sordid and rotting. From Wordnik.com. [Gotham Chopra: Notes from My Father's Monkhood Ceremony] Reference
As far as I'm concerned, the Times is another enabler and exploiter in the "sordid" story. From Wordnik.com. [Susie Bright: The Camwhore Chronicles] Reference
The article details this kind of sordid money trail with the current BCS system of bowl games. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Undefeated Broncos Still Get No Respect] Reference
I mean, he's still dealing with the whole perjury case involving an affair, all that kind of sordid stuff. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
Even the Vatican itself, in its official statement to the UN, bases its claim to statehood on the 'sordid' Lateran treaty. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Holy See is treated as a state] Reference
This the logic of "accountability moments" happening only once every four years and "political capital" as a kind of sordid play money. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall/Murdoch-Street Journal Asks, "Barack or Hillary?"] Reference
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has emphasized resolving the cases and closing what he calls a "sordid" chapter in the agency's history. From Wordnik.com. [Obama administration offers $1.3 billion to settle USDA discrimination case] Reference
Nor seek in sordid chains to bind. From Wordnik.com. [The Semi-Detached House] Reference
Toil'd without fame, in sordid chains confin'd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson] Reference
Brown's decision to quit a "sordid" attempt to keep Labour in power. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Too often, the word "sordid" comes along with the word "details" in such books. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
The MP, Noreen Hay, also denied the accusations, saying nothing "sordid" happened. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
I don't care what kind of sordid, tragic past you've had with other pie dough recipes. From Wordnik.com. [thecookscottage] Reference
This was life indeed, and the work of making looms appeared to him as a kind of sordid drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Judgment] Reference
Did they fancy their 'sordid' money had bought his freedom to do afterwards what he thought fit? ". From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
But until the sordid disclosures of 1998, there was always a chance. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference
The search for answers should start with the boy's sordid home life. From Wordnik.com. [Did Kayla Have To Die?] Reference
The whole matter may blow over as a sordid chapter in Washington hardball. From Wordnik.com. [A Problem For Clarence Thomas?] Reference
The pretrial maneuvering on both sides has been clever, intense and sordid. From Wordnik.com. [The Paula Problem] Reference
In the English countryside, four men become involved in a sordid love quadrangle. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Mass] Reference
But now after time in jail and rehab, Belfort gets to tell this sordid tale himself. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Read] Reference
And it's not NBC's sordid "Spy TV" doing the filming, but the Tampa Police Department. From Wordnik.com. [Science And Technology] Reference
The circumstances of Cobain's short life and last days were as sordid as they were sad. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout Of The Burnout] Reference
But it was hard to believe there could be any winners in the sad and sordid Cosby case. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter] Reference
The backdrop to this sordid political soap opera is a country that's become truly bleak. From Wordnik.com. [GLORIA'S LAST STAND?] Reference
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