sordid

How To Use sordid In A Sentence

• Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera? Times, Sunday Times
• Their sordid complots are destined to explode into an orgy of violence.
• The present pose of horror adopted by media and government officials with regard to revelations of torture by the military is a sordid farce.
• The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
• We all have sordid purposes and empty intents and material incentives.
• The final sorry part of this sordid tale is the way in which the media and their expert pundits were so uncritical in analysing the information.
• The history of racism in accusations and punishments for rape is sordid and shameful.
• Other species with notable disjunct distributions on the Pellew Islands include the canefield rat (Rattus sordidus) (the only known occurrence in the Northern Territory), the vulnerable Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus), brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus). Carpentaria tropical savanna
• In his incommunicable world of silence, made the more sordid by isolation and discrimination, he find himself the butt of everybody's abuse and insult.
• There is nothing about the story that is not heart-rending, sickening or sordid.