SkyfireDict

sordid   (TTS Sound)

The adj sordid has 4 senses

• seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid -- (morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal")


• dirty, sordid -- (unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign")


• flyblown, squalid, sordid -- (foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns")


• sordid -- (meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests")