Adjective : sordid methods. ,sordid housing. From Dictionary.com.
There are sordidly tales within tales, you clearly understand that?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I am sordidly debating within myself … the perennial question. From Wordnik.com. [Imperfect Union] Reference
He was a great libertine, given to unnatural crimes, and sordidly solicitous for plunder of the. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Those who sordidly sell themselves over there, those who surrender today, never had dignity or true honor. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session] Reference
It had a sordidly exhilarating effect, as though we couldn't wait to bask in our dosage of radioactive fallout. From Wordnik.com. [TERRORIST TARGET OR NOT, THE DANGER IS REAL] Reference
Ochus was so sordidly covetous, that to avoid this expense, he never visited his native country once in all his reign. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The Clintons, especially Bill, is owed a profound and genuine apology for the race card so sordidly played against him. —. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Chat With Bill Clinton - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Although the roots of the Boy Scouts are sordidly statist, scouting was practically my whole childhood, and a very good one. From Wordnik.com. [» ‘Where do we go from here’ heinleinblog] Reference
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If everybody worked meanly and sordidly for money, the result would be a prosperity that would prove the benevolence of Providence. From Wordnik.com. [G.K.'s Weekly - The Case of Adam Smith] Reference
English people for thirty years afterwards more sordidly than Napoleon would have oppressed them, and its Allies replaced him on the throne of. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
He was an ingenuous youth, sordidly shabby and dirty. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
The whole affair was, so to speak, sordidly innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume I] Reference
They have always seemed too sordidly poverty-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
He illustrates sordidly a chapter of England's history. From Wordnik.com. [The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary] Reference
And it is even better never to be happy than to be sordidly happy. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
"And did she pay you a whole lot for it?" inquired Ellen sordidly. From Wordnik.com. [An Alabaster Box] Reference
Speaking sordidly, I shall obtain food and lodging while I look about me. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 5] Reference
Carl's flying was as sordidly real as laying brick for a one-story laundry in. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
They remorselessly pulled down, or patched meanly and sordidly, the old work. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
What is it? why is it? and why are such luminous tints so sordidly concealed?. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
"Our peasants live too sordidly," observed a Frenchman to me a day or two later. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which, sordidly speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
"Magnetic Warrior" is choc-full of sordidly tribal drumming, charmingly muddy vocals, and a whole lot of noise. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
Kermesse, he flung himself into all that riotous Flemish life, with a zest for what was most sordidly riotous in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons] Reference
It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
She enjoyed glimpsing in through uncurtained windows, into sordid rooms where human beings moved as if sordidly unaware. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
Senate race, most unintentionally entertaining governor, most sordidly scandalized senator and most chronically inebriated mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
It is so sordidly commonplace, and you are so very far removed from sordid things that I didn't think you would care to hear of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
For-profits desperately, sordidly, pounce on any enrollee with a pulse; once they're got 'em, they're gonna give everyone A's to keep 'em. From Wordnik.com. [University Diaries] Reference
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