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.
From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more. Miscellanies
The law must contemplate the full and often sordid scope of social reality.
The whole sordid affair came out in the press.
How Shakespeare loathed humanity — the putting on of clothes, the getting of children, the sordidity of the mouth and the belly! Mrs. Dalloway
All is not what it seems, however, as strange twists and turns make viewers stay glued to their screens trying to unkink the sordid mess.
Sed ab hoc incepto me non solum deterruerunt sordidi colores virides et violacei, qui ex mistionibus illis prodibant, sed et imprimis illud, quod, ob differentes pigmentorun grauitates specificas et inaequalem cum aqua cohaesionem, et ab artis perito magni errores facile committi poterant. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
He led a strange torpid life in the week, doing nothing in the kitchen of the rectory, in a state of great sordidness. TESTIMONIES
Corycium mihi surgit olus malvaeque supinae et non sollicitos missura papavera somnos. praeterea sive alitibus contexere fraudem seu magis inbelles libuit circumdare cervos aut tereti lino pavidum subducere piscem, hos tantum novere dolos mea sordida rura. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The poor family lived in a sordid log cabin in the valley.
His lack of sentimentality, his preoccupation with sex, and attention to often sordid reality were attractive to a large section of Italy's growingly literate public.
There is an unquenched thirst for knowledge about their wardrobe, their bedroom escapades, their sordid past.
Here are a couple more suggestions, just because I don't want to deprive readers the potential benefit of fellow squirrel-haters' wisdom, no matter how sordid: Fisher cats was one Brattleboro, Vt., resident's response to my observation that the squirrels seem to have grown more self-assertive since our dog died. Lessons for Squirrels
Uncover use sordidly make up cotton is touched make up water wipe up, can undertake at ordinary times the foundation protects skin.
The bank probe into internal emails and instant messages has also allegedly unearthed other City traders' sordid behaviour. The Sun
Not only did he steal from me, he did it while having a sordid affair behind my back. The Sun
The huts they lived in were sordid and filthy beyond belief.
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends.
The result is a strange display of exhilarating liberation paired with unsettling sordidness.
When she further discovers that Arabella is at work on a secret manuscript, a book of "observations" on the behavior of domestic servants, Bessy is horrified that her sordid past is not as carefully concealed as she has supposed. The Observations by Jane Harris: Questions
Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
It's not quite shocking or sordid enough to fit in the hentai tradition, and its visual style is a far cry from traditional anime.
The whole sordid affair came out in the press.
I just hope we do not hear about any more celeb sordid tales and trials. The Sun
No appreciable number of people is really leaving, but if they are made to forswear any attention to or involvement in the whole sordid mess going forward, something similar is accomplished.
This story is sordid and shameful, and everyone who was involved in producing it should be ashamed of themselves.
The day of nuptials culminated with a brief comedy moment - as members of the cast hit the dancefloor to reveal some interesting moves - before ruthless Rob bedded the bridesmaid to keep the sordid secret under wraps.
The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
Let us not mind the drug dealers, the pimps, and the other riff-raff who hang around that sordid industry.
The scene in the cemetery, for instance, with its brilliancy, its sordidity, its incoherence, its sudden lightning flashes of significance, does undoubtedly come so close to the quick of the mind that, on a first reading at any rate, it is difficult not to acclaim a masterpiece. The Common Reader
Perhaps the old sordidity, the fog and the paraffin, and the drunken landlady, was not the only reality; ugliness is not the whole truth; there is an element of beauty in the world. The Common Reader, Second Series
The realistic sordidity of the former balanced against the breathless adventure of the latter, combine in stamping Spout as a genius of the highest order. Terribly Intimate Portraits
Murder and sordid affairs in a holiday camp? The Sun
She no longer is the same shy woman who fumbled for words when the sordid episode broke out.
There is a twist to his sordid tale. Times, Sunday Times
There was, for instance, a sordid and evil-smelling smoking room in the hospital at Cygnet that had a machine on the wall where patients lit their cigarettes by pressing a green button. Henry’s Demons
Ansari depicts the history of the caliphs as a sordid one of oppression and skullduggery.
But death in its more sordid and terrible aspects was a thing with which I had been unacquainted till now. Chapter 2
After 18 months of complaining to various authorities and writing to the Craven Herald, the town hall entrance is still filthy and sordid.
But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities.
As a result of the grand jury's report on what it called "sordid, shocking acts," Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary of the clergy in the Archdiocese, faces charges of child endangerment. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Add to that you have the tax dodge of offshore accounts and you have a rather sordid picture.
the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
But rather, you should introduce some fair and noble impression to replace it, and banish this base and sordid one.
TYPICAL USE : The poor family lived sordid log cabin in the valley.
And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The majority of the world's people live in sordid conditions, deprived of basic necessities. Democracy in India
He had 'teached' for twenty years, he said, but in spite of this there was about him something indescribably rural, something of the sod -- not the dignity, the sturdiness of it, but rather of the pettiness, the sordidness of it. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
Fun, over-the-top foreign suspenser about a Ukranian woman (Xenia Rappoport) who moves to Italy to escape her sordid past as a prostitute. 2010 May : Scrubbles.net
A sordid practicalism has made itself felt, due to a feverish desire to play an important rôle in the detail of current politics. German Culture Past and Present
He read the glorious blazoning of the firmament! — ay, when sordid moles shall become lynxes. Quentin Durward
sordid material interests
Yet their works continued to draw audiences; no matter how bizarre the plots, how filled with sordid family squabbles, the ghetto dwellers regarded them as a form of documentary.
It introduced small gold shields for watch chains as prizes, attractive to even the most sordid pot hunter.
But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities.
Delightfully shameless, he chats his way though a barrage of rapid-fire lessons on how to schmooze, write, produce, direct, distribute, act and scam your way through the rather sordid underbelly that is the film biz.
Privately speaking, this is a sordid and criminal war, and in every way shameful and excuseless. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
But it was not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating -- unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos. The Jungle
Sed ab hoc incepto me non solum deterruerunt sordidi colores virides et violacei, qui ex mistionibus illis prodibant, sed et imprimis illud, quod, ob differentes pigmentorun grauitates specificas et inaequalem cum aqua cohaesionem, et ab artis perito magni errores facile committi poterant. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Creator, the realizing life to all things fair and true and good: and more especially would we revert to its spiritual purity, emphatically manifested through all its manifold operations, -- so impossible of alliance with any thing sordid, or false, or wicked, -- so unapprehensible, even, except for its own most sinless sake. Lectures on Art
Just the day before the child had spent nearly four taxing hours at the Criminal Investigations Department recapping the whole sordid affair.
And as usual, dear reader, I was cursed with the ability to remember every sordid detail despite being three sheets to the wind.
The historical record of the counterculture is one of aspiration to cultivate the best in human beings, but it is also a record of the sordid deeds and speech-acts that sometimes followed in the wake of those aspirations. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Generations ago Dysarts had been shot very conventionally at ten paces owing to this same debonair resistlessness; Dysarts had slipped into and out of all sorts of unsavoury messes on account of this fatal family failing; some had been neatly winged, some thrust through; some, in a more sordid age, permitted counsel of ability to explain to a jury how guiltless a careless gentleman could be under the most unfortunate and extenuating appearances. The Danger Mark
Transition periods are difficult, and China has been troubled by those who in their enthusiasm for change have lost the sense of proportion, and sought to revolutionise much that is dearer than life itself to many of their countrymen; nevertheless, this great nation, permeated with ideals so free from sordidity, will surely carve for herself a future worthy of her past. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow
There is a definite misogynistic, anti-feminism playing throughout the sordid vignettes.
For the most part, the intellectuals were projecting their own sordid chauvinism on to the working class.
As mentioned in an earlier crit, the unusual presentation of a drab and colourless sixties really creates an atmosphere of sordidity and the authentic sets added to this (... don't you just HATE it when you mumble under your breath We Blog A Lot
I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness -- I must have money -- _money! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
Broyard wrote this before the boom in what Joyce Carol Oates has called “pathography,” or biography and autobiography that focus on the sordid. 2007 January « One-Minute Book Reviews
He cannot be unreal -- the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
The bodybuilding lifestyle as portrayed by these publications is sordid and distasteful.
The desire of these heroin addicts for chemically induced oblivion is made comprehensible by the sordid, disaffecting environment in which they live.
His lyrics reflected life's brutal, sordid details with biting wit and infectious humour. Times, Sunday Times
But the dealers have made the most of such a complacent belief, conducting their sordid business in front of our unseeing eyes.
He found its narrative — lovers engaged in lethal criminality — "sordid … unrestrainedly vicious, completely devoid of moral tone. Crowther Recoiled at Movie 'Devoid of Moral Tone'
Although outsiders view the pairing as sordid and unsavoury, the couple cling together, finding solace in this unlikely romance.
Vice thrived in its most sordid and elegant forms, from squalid opium dens and off-the-street brothels to the decorum and plush luxuriance of the so-called French restaurants. Frank Norris
A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
There are those of us who advised in vain that this sordid matter be quietly and wisely settled and not be bruited about in public.
Roasting has taken on a more sordid meaning with claims that top-level footballers are engaging in group sex with consenting young women.
The whole sordid saga has traumatised me. Times, Sunday Times
The Dutroux case, which uncovered a sordid picture of judicial and political corruption, implicated the highest levels of Belgian society.
Our high desires for spiritual reality are transmuted into the sordid quest for consumerism and materialism.
Having begun its corrupt debauchment of conurbations worldwide by sleazing up New York (kind of a gimme), this rampant rendezvous of ravishment has moved on to purvey its own sordid brand of pastel-smudged skullduggery in the artistic communities of more than two dozen cities. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, NYC « Skid Roche
Such sordid scandals tarnish the beautiful game. The Sun
They say that every picture tells a story, and I'd say this picture tells a sordid one.
There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city's poorer areas.
The art is made in shaky, unstudied pencil that disarms the sordid imagery, and the juvenile captions each picture faces are too wet with angst to be truly disturbing.
They left the sordid bit of bringing the kit to the dressing room to the bearers. Times, Sunday Times
The whole atmosphere is one of propriety and etiquette, under which the sordid matters of power and money bubble.
Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.
Vasari states that in his old age Piero expressed his distaste for the sordid trappings of death, such as parasitic nurses, the visitations of weeping relatives, and confinement in dark sickrooms.
Or maybe it's just another case of sordid backscratching among the powerful elite at the UN.
For every dignified traditional leisure activity like kabuki or Noh theater, there are sordid underground clubs where fetishes and fringe elements are offered and capitalized upon.
But what do refusals to engage with kinship's allegedly sordid past achieve?
Let us not mind the drug dealers, the pimps, and the other riff-raff who hang around that sordid industry.
This is a sordid tale, splendidly told. Times, Sunday Times
_ Nigro-cyanea, antennis piceis, articulo tertio longissimo, tarsis basi albidis, tibiis intermediis sordide albidis, alis limpidis. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
They left the sordid bit of bringing the kit to the dressing room to the bearers. Times, Sunday Times
I am emotionally ruined because of his sordid, secret affair. The Sun
Too many memoirs of late tell us more than we wanted to know about the sordid details of individual lives.
But together they present a sordid picture of a man who used his status as a minor celebrity to seduce a bevy of women, often in unsavoury circumstances.
a sordid political campaign
It was a shock to discover the truth about his sordid past.
The few antlered stag-heads upon the walls were mangey and dusty; the strip of arras that swayed softly in the draught of a window only sufficed to accentuate the sordid nature of that once pretentious interior. Doom Castle
Just as we love to stickybeak into other people's houses, we love to know how other people live - no detail is too sordid, no information too personal.
I sit and watch the others drift carelessly in, laughing and giggling about sordid things.
In like manner the late penitent, like the late paymaster, though by such a repentance he may secure himself from the final arrests of damnation, yet still it is something sordid and degenerous. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.
The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
A thing so cheap, so tacky, so sordid that I scarcely dare sully these pages with an account of it.
My twenty-year career in alcoholism is a clichéd bore, but sober for most of sixteen years, I can live more intensely the ever-sordid hunger for booze that marks all classic noir. December 2006
sordid avarice
The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
Jackson made music that pleased a lot of people, but to make this sordid individual into a demigod is an insult to far more worthy people who die every day. sully Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'
Sordid and diseased, perhaps, but there's already a compelling and coherent vision at work.
The whole sordid affair came out in the press.
Another motive, the sordid one, is the craving for gossip, particularly the naughty kind.
But you'll bristle at the wasted resources and moral compromises involved in the whole sordid mess.
The most sordid destitution -- if ignorance of comfort can be called destitution -- reigned everywhere around. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
The origins of the sordid controversy go back to the founding of the ethanol industry in Australia in the early 1990s. Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is a petrol additive derived from wheat, sugar and other vegetable matter.
He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. CHAPTER 2
Other errors stem from the software's reliance on collocational data - for instance, the transcription follows sordid with tale, which appears to be nothing more than a hunch based on the frequency of the collocation sordid tale.
Academics may fancy themselves ‘above’ the sordid world of commerce, but they fight mightily for raises, time off, perks.
Similarly, the tragic deaths with which the story ends descend from their mythic status in the book into the squalid and the sordid in the film. Christianity Today
It was very ludicrous to see our late servant giving up his charge to our present one -- the solemnity with which the iron tureen, and the one knife, and the three forks, that were not furcated, seeing that they had but one prong each, were surrendered: Joshua's contempt at the sordid poverty of the republic to which he was to administer, was quite as undisguised as his surprise. Rattlin the Reefer
He is unable to remember the sordid detail. Times, Sunday Times
All he could talk about was motor-cars, machinery, gasoline, and garages -- and especially, and with huge delight, of his mean pilferings and sordid swindlings of the persons who had employed him in the days before the corning of the plague. Page 4
It ill befits the distance between your Highness and me to send you for ocular conviction to a jakes or an oven, to the windows of a bawdyhouse, or to a sordid lantern. English Satires
Little things that seem sordid, even brutifying to insular eyes, really arise from incompatible standards. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
And now thou didst set me face to face with myself, that I might see how ugly I was, and how crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The love triangle was played out in sordid detail in the Indian press. Times, Sunday Times
For beneath the high-sounding arguments lurks a far more sordid reality.
The Conway saga is a sordid tale of grubby politics, naked greed and social ambition. Times, Sunday Times
Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
Three years passed in sordid struggle and disappointment. The Promised Land
If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it is certainly true that readers are familiar with a corresponding mood. The Common Reader, Second Series
In the suit, Charming Shoppes says 10-year-old Crescendo has a "sordid history of greenmailing and corporate raiding," and it alleges the funds misrepresented their intentions. Boards Give Up Taming Act
In such an air it had seemed that no petty egotism could hamper their growth, no misintelligence obscure their love; yet all the while this pure happiness had been unfolding against a sordid background of falsehood and intrigue from which his soul turned with loathing. The Fruit of the Tree
Feigned unwillingness or indifference in obedience to such advice may perhaps be called coyness, but it is only a coarse primitive phase of that attitude, based on sordid, mercenary motives, whereas true modern coyness consists in an impulse, grounded in modesty, to conceal affection. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
And who can resist such a sordid and seductive tale? Times, Sunday Times
The huts they lived in were sordid and filthy beyond belief.
Such sordid scandals tarnish the beautiful game. The Sun
Now the Hither Isles are flat and cold and swampy, with drear-drab light and all manner of slimy, creeping things, and piles of dirt and clouds of flying dust and sordid scraping and feeding and noise. DARKWATER
I am getting a little weary of these sordid experiences, quite honestly.
It was a shameful, sordid scene. Times, Sunday Times
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
Fortunately, Congress came to their senses and put the kybosh on the whole sordid affair.
We are part of the same sordid conspiracy against public understanding.
He had a dim memory of wandering through a labyrinth of sordid houses, of being lost in a giant web of sombre streets, and it was bright dawn when he found himself at last in Piccadilly Circus.
With gravitas that perfectly poises humor and horror, playwright Diana Son's "Stop Kiss", directed by Kristal Greenlea for the Garage Theatre, simultaneously darkens an otherwise enchanting prelude to a first kiss with its sordid aftermath. James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
Bianchi is at his best when he delivers his seedy, sordid lyrics in a blank, innocent voice.
Their first case, a home invasion rape-murder that uncovers a series of pattern crimes with an unlikely prime suspect, features a strong guest performance by White Collar's Tim DeKay as a grieving widower but otherwise seems indistinguishable from a sordid Special Victims Unit potboiler. Roush Review: A LOLA Makeover
The nomad and romantic in him, troubled and restless with Ukrainian myth, legend, and song, impressed upon Russian literature, faced with the realities of modern life, a spirit titanic and in clash with its material, and produced in the mastery of this every-day material, commonly called sordid, a phantasmagoria intense with beauty. Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Unless the affair was truly sordid. Times, Sunday Times
Life in the slums of south London is portrayed frankly and sympathetically, not merely as a parade of sordid details but as a real lived-in environment with its own joys and comforts alongside the more negative aspects.
Est porcus ille qui sacerdotem ex amplitudine redituum sordide demeritur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Our temporary political masters may denigrate his ideals and smash the organisations for which he worked, but men of his calibre will be honoured when his denigrators are mere footnotes in the sordid history of these times.
May ai offur yu sum Rooibos tea wid a leedle honey flavor an sordid kukkies fur yu tu sip an nom? Lo Five - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Despite this sordid picture, the leadership of DC 37 voted last week against direct elections by the members of top union officers.
The newspaper revealed the sordid truth behind his mask of respectability.
It's a sordid story, curly as the 200-plus pound porker's corkscrew tail.
Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days.
He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall. Chapter 3
Watching your own blood ooze from a cut you made yourself, burning your thigh with a cigarette, vomiting in a restaurant bathroom after a meal, letting yourself look like a derelict -- all the sad and sordid acts associated with "the dark side" -- are in reality little more than pop-culture clichés. David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends?
You can read the sordid details elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
Both films are tragedies dealing with the rise and fall of a man within a sordid industry.
In this case ‘FU’ is a shorthand employed by party whips to describe sexually incontinent MPs who have thus far managed to keep their sordid secrets from their spouses but not the party managers.
Rauch could have written a sober-minded column about governing as a sordid compromise, a column about Max Weber and Thomas Mann, about the decision to drop the nuclear bomb, about philosopher-kings, about the art of the possible, about Abraham Lincoln and Vaclav Havel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
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.
This would appear to be reinfored by the fact that it's an older Klein, and as such is equipped with rear-entry horizontal dropouts, which is not nearly as sordid as it sounds and makes it ripe for fixed-gear conversion. Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks
In its worst it is tainted with material interests and such sordid things as money and self-advancement.
Holiday from sordid violence, mean theft, callous brutality, avaricious thieving, sophisticated fraud. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
sordid shantytowns
Moreover, it is a sordid story of printers feuding, interminable law suits, and monopolistic practices.
Just a sordid little punch-up. Times, Sunday Times
After the fall of communism, part of the peace dividend that the free world enjoyed was the moral relief of being able to withdraw from such sordid partnerships.
He said: 'You will hear all sorts of sordid details in relation to this case but this is not a court of morals. Times, Sunday Times
It was a shock to discover the truth about his sordid past.
At present you spend your lives in sordid labour, your abode in filthy slums; your children hunger and your masters say your slavery must endure forever.
What is being revealed in this sordid spectacle is the deep-going corruption of the traditional institutions of bourgeois rule in America.
a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures? Latter-Day Pamphlets
As for the rest, he assailed them in their own way, setting whole hogsheads of beer and wine abroach, for the benefit of comers; and into those sordid hearts that liquor would not open, he found means to convey himself by the help of a golden key. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Meanwhile, pavlova, n., the brave promotional gambit of Davis Gelatine (a rather sordid jelly concocted with inter alia milk and orange juice), and pavlova, n., the American ice-cream (c. 1926) of which I can find no trace at all, evidently require separate definitions. Archive 2009-06-01
The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
Amid the welter of sordid interests, he stood as the symbol of proud incorruptibility.
But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities.
And without--the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions.

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