Adjective : sordid methods. ,sordid housing. From Dictionary.com.
Even the food at meals had that awful dreary sordidness which is so repulsive to a young thing coming from abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
Oh! your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
The sordidness of it left a bad taste in Jody's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
And the sordidness of what she had become involved in!. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Monster of Marriage] Reference
Respectful eulogies will not erase the sordidness of Watergate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
She was just sorry the creep had dragged her into the sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
He doesn't seem to get distracted by the sordidness of the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Gotham Chopra: Notes from My Father's Monkhood Ceremony] Reference
But I had no desire to ponder over the sordidness of my surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers] Reference
The affair is more than venality and sordidness, but distant from love. From Wordnik.com. [He cheated on his wife, so we can't trust him. Is that the rule you want?] Reference
Vicious women have few vices, and sordidness is not usually one of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
How could he set, as it were, all of this sordidness against her sweetness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
The stagnation and sordidness of life in the country offended him at every step. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
There was no place for pessimism, no place for materialism, no place for sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
It did not lead him to hide, it only led him to account for, his father's sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
'I've seen enough of this sordidness,' the New Hampshire woman said, seeming to feel ignored. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
It is well enough for you to be above sordidness, so could I be with your purse and your prospects. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
Again, as the garments of the daily task fell from her, Joyce felt the sordidness and fearsomeness depart. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
But that which would have been sordid in her, did not seem to her to have any stain of sordidness for him. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
You shrink from sordidness and poverty because you feel very deeply for anyone in unfortunate circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [riag14 Diary Entry] Reference
Why convey the old prince to my pitiful little den, and alarm him, perhaps, by the sordidness of his surroundings?. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
To all the sordidness — for that was what it boiled down to in the end, tricks and evasions and treacherous little lies. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
Two lifetimes in banking had taught them that the rich surpass everyone else in sensitivity to the sordidness of cold cash. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
What a world it had been, a world of men -- a striving, eager group, raised for the moment above sordidness, above self. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
If want be accompanied with sordidness and squalor, though it be pitied, the pity will be mixed with some degree of contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Both McCain and Huckabee are refreshingly free-spirited and capable of rising above the dreariness and sordidness of the stump. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot vs. The Preacher] Reference
No mere reformer or "up-lifter" who sees only ugliness and sordidness can effect very far-reaching changes, and retain his faith. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
His was never the disinterested love of the beautiful that certain lucky collectors retain through all the sordidness of the quest. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Hence, I felt manipulated in the midst of a grubby milieu with a mumbly sordidness I am weary of encountering on the Sundance circuit. From Wordnik.com. [Two Guys, a Girl and None of Them Gay] Reference
It cannot be doubted by men of penetration, that spiritualism, in its birth and maturity, is associated with sordidness and wickedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Of course there'd be no reason to write it at all if Garland's uncanny gifts as a singer and entertainer hadn't transcended the pain and sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong End Of The Rainbow] Reference
The videotaped eyewitness accounts provided to NEWSWEEK and other news organizations are horrifying, hard to believe in their sordidness and brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Probing Bloodbath] Reference
But in his interview with NEWSWEEK, Saheb described Mullah Omar as a man who used his simplicity to pose as a symbol of purity in a world of sordidness. From Wordnik.com. [Mulla Omar Off The Record] Reference
It seemed impossible -- yet -- and here his big charity spoke -- all of the choice spirit of the girl cannot have been swallowed up in the sordidness of a selfish, old age. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
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