sordid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sordid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sordid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sordid adj 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" Synonym(s): seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" Synonym(s): dirty, 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" Synonym(s): flyblown, squalid, sordid meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See {Swart}, a.] 1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. --Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. [bd]To scorn the sordid world.[b8] --Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J. Denham.