Sordid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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              A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
              A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To
        scorn the sordid world." --Milton.
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     3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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              He may be old,
              And yet sordid, who refuses gold.     --Sir J.
                                                    Denham.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sordid
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy},
               {sleazy}, {squalid}]
       2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
          political campaign" [syn: {dirty}]
       3: 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" [syn: {flyblown}, {squalid}]
       4: meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid
          material interests"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "sordid":
     a hog for, abased, abominable, acquisitive, all-devouring, arrant,
     atrocious, avaricious, avid, awful, base, beastly, beat-up,
     bedraggled, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowsy, blowzy,
     bottomless, brutal, careless, chintzy, contemptible, corrupt,
     coveting, covetous, debased, defiled, degraded, deplorable,
     derogatory, despicable, deteriorated, detestable, devouring,
     dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, discreditable, disgusting,
     dishonorable, disreputable, dowdy, down-and-out, drabbletailed,
     draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, esurient,
     execrable, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, frowsy, frowzy,
     frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping,
     greedy, grievous, gross, grubby, grudging, hateful, heinous,
     hoggish, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, impoverished,
     impure, in rags, infamous, informal, inglorious, insanitary,
     insatiable, insatiate, lamentable, limitless, loathsome, loose,
     lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, mean, mercenary, messy,
     mingy, miserable, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monstrous,
     mucky, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, niggard, niggardly,
     noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, omnivorous,
     outrageous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penurious, piggish,
     pinchpenny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, polluted, poor,
     poverty-stricken, putrid, quenchless, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle,
     rank, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regrettable, reprehensible,
     repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous, schlock, scraggly,
     scurvy, seamy, seedy, selfish, servile, shabby, shady, shameful,
     shocking, shoddy, slack, slakeless, slattern, slatternly, sleazy,
     slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish,
     sodden, squalid, stingy, swinish, tacky, tattered, terrible,
     too bad, tumbledown, unappeasable, unappeased, unclean, uncleanly,
     unkempt, unneat, unpraiseworthy, unquenchable, unrespectable,
     unsanitary, unsated, unsatisfied, unsavory, unsightly, unslakeable,
     unslaked, untidy, venal, vile, villainous, voracious, woeful,
     worst, worthless, wretched