sordidadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɔːdɪd/, U.S.

/ˈsɔrdəd/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sordide, 1600s sorded.

Etymology: < French sordide (16th cent. in Godefroy; = Spanish sordido , Portuguese sordido , Italian sordido ), or < Latin sordidus dirty, foul, base, mean, etc., < sordēre to be dirty: compare sordes n.

A. adj.

I. In physical senses: foul, dirty, and related uses.

1. Pathology.

a. Of suppurations, etc.: corrupt, foul, repulsive; of the nature of sordes.

ΚΠ

1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. L iij b The vlcers [are] inequal, sordides [sic],..euill fauoured, by reason of the humor, which is most sordide and stinking.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 137 The skin parched, or soaked with sordid, fetid sweat.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 627 There is a dejection of sordid pus in considerable abundance.

1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvi. 161 An old grey-white accumulation of sordid epithelial detritus.

b. Of an ulcer, wound, etc.: yielding or discharging matter of this kind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective]

fouleOE

festereda1398

quitterya1398

quittorousa1398

festrya1400

purulent?a1425

suppurate?a1425

matterativec1487

mattereda1500

mattery1527

attery1535

sanious1562

festering1563

matterish1566

infestered1570

ulcerated1580

suppurated1583

sordid1597

corsie1605

fistulating1607

rankling1631

suppurable1634

rancorous1635

undercotted1636

undercotting1637

suppuratory1659

puriform1668

quittorish1668

suppurating1671

scandalous1676

suppurative1746

suppurant1799

gleety1822

puruloid1846

pyoid1846

colloid substance1849

peptic1884

pussy1888

maturable1889

fretty1894

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > discharge of putrid matter

gleeting1527

running1535

mattering1547

sordid1597

sordidous1608

ichorous1651

ichorose1710

1597 [see sense A. 1a].

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. ii. i. 165 There is a second sort of Matter affecting Ulcers that is thick, generated of abundance of gross tough Humours, and rendering the Ulcer foul; whence it is called a Sordid Vlcer.

1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 291 The Wound was very sordid; and the inside as well as the outside beset with Slime.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 384 The disease corrodes the fingers and toes with a dry, sordid, scabby, and gangrenous ulcer.

1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 163 The incision on the left arm, which..had degenerated into a sordid ulcer.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 538 In several sordid cutaneous eruptions.

a. Dirty, foul, filthy; repellent through want of cleanness or tidiness; in later use, mean and squalid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean

ungoderlyc1400

sluttish?1529

squalid1596

scrubbing1603

sordid1611

snotty1681

frowzy1710

grub1719

seedy1725

unkempt1838

grubby1844

crumby1859

ratty1867

scruffy1871

scrutty1914

scummy1932

ribby1936

raunchy1937

sleazy1941

scroungy1948

manky1958

skanky1963

grungy1965

scungy1966

scuzzy1969

scrungy1974

skeevy1976

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sordide, sordide, foule, filthie, corrupt.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 390 Sordid, senslesse, namelesse dust.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick iv. vii. 116 The choller and flegm which is more..impure, swims at the top, and so the blood seems impure and sordid.

1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 10 [I will] rather..live on sordid scraps at proud mens doors.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 [They] sprinkle sordid Ashes all around.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 The Trout is banish'd by the sordid Stream.

1836 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Nature iii. 27 In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple.

b. Of places, houses, etc.

ΚΠ

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 246 To finde a languishing wretch in a sordid corner.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 Their houses..within are poore and sordid.

1670 Philos. Trans. 1669 (Royal Soc.) 4 1136 The sweepings of the house, any kind of ashes, shovelings of any sordid place.

1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxxviii. 19 Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 122 Stately edifices..were doomed to fall into decay and be succeeded by sordid hovels.

1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 56 She has escaped from her sordid surroundings.

c. Of life, conditions, etc.

ΚΠ

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. v. 110 Through their owne nastinesse & sluttishnesse, & immund sordid maner of life, suffer their aire to putrifie.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 108 The sordid and nasty way that the Ambassadour and all his train lived in.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 86 What a kind of barbarous and sordid Life we must necessarily have lived.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. ii. §13. 70 We..may have imagined..that Abraham lived in a sordid plenty.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. iv. 206 He can procure a sordid meal.

1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 265 With tattered raiment and all the outward signs of sordid misery.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 132 Dick's experience of the sordid misery of want.

d. Of garments or clothing.

ΚΠ

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 7 Wear the same garment in Winter as in Summer, and that sordid.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 366 In a sordid and squalid Habit.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 14 The Magistrate had too great an Honour for Truth to suspect that she ever appeared in sordid Apparel.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xli. 149 Sordid and scanty were their garments.

1851 R. C. Trench Poems (1862) 183 They put the sordid grave clothes off.

†3. Of persons (or animals): Dirty or sluttish in habits or appearance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective]

sluttishc1405

sluttya1425

slut?a1513

drabbish1566

drabby1612

sordid1613

slithy1622

sleathy1652

slattering1673

slatternly1677

slattern1683

trapish1703

slammerkin1742

trolloping1770

unheppen1790

trollopy1800

slatternish1833

haveless1868

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 232 They abstaine from swines flesh: neither will that sweete aire of Arabia breath life to that sordide and stinking creature.

1664 H. More Apol. 517 Provided we be not course and sordid, but reverent and comely in our public worship.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ¶5 The Person he chanced to see was to Appearance an old sordid Blind Man.

II. In extended senses: coarse, low, or mean in nature or character.

†4. Of a coarse, gross, or inferior character or nature; befitting or appertaining to a mean person or thing; menial. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]

evil971

lowc1175

poor?c1225

feeblec1275

vilea1300

petty1372

unthende1377

secondary1386

petitc1390

unmeeta1393

illa1400

commonc1400

coarse1424

indigent1426

unlikelyc1450

lesser1464

gross1474

naughty1526

inferior1531

reprobate?1545

slender1577

unlikely1578

puny1579

under1580

wooden1592

sordid1596

puisne1598

provant1601

subministrant1604

inferious1607

sublunary1624

indifferent1638

undermatched1642

unworthy1646

underly1648

turncoated1650

female1652

undergraduate1655

farandinical1675

baddishc1736

ungenerous1745

understrapping1762

tinnified1794

demi-semi1805

shabby1805

dicky1819

poor white1821

tin-pot1838

deterior1848

substandard1850

crumby1859

cheesy1863

po'1866

not-quite1867

rocky1873

mouldy1876

low-grade1878

sketchy1878

midget1879

junky1880

ullaged1892

abysmal1904

bodgie1905

junk1908

crap1936

ropy1941

bodger1945

two-star1951

tripey1955

manky1958

schlocky1960

cack1978

wank1991

bowf1994

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective]

draffsacked1548

sordid1596

dunghilly1616

proletarious1654

proletaneous1656

proletical1659

raff1761

raffish1795

proletarian1848

riff-raffy1850

proletary1854

low-down1865

underworld1929

lumpenproletarian1936

prole1938

nitty-gritty1948

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q3 She..In his hand a distaffe to him gaue, That he thereon should spin both flax and tow; A sordid office for a mind so braue.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Cc1^v Hee did thinke much to dispute with any, that did alledge such base and Sordide instances.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. i. §8. 189 Not onely in liberall and ingenious Arts, but also in sordide and ignoble.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 91 Modesty teacheth us to decline sordid things.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 106 By which means it was redeem'd from that sordid use.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 168. ⁋6 The long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices.

a. Of actions, habits, etc.: Of a low, mean, or despicable character; marked by or proceeding from ignoble motives, esp. of self-interest or monetary gain.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid > specifically of actions, habits, etc.

sordidous1602

sordid1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Taquinerie, sordide miserie,..base pinching.

1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 106 His sordide and base dissembling.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 35 The Clergy using all the basest and sordidest Arts possible to draw Legacies from Rich Widows.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. ii. 19 We see, in the behaviour, and sordid acquiescence with insults, of these three men, that offensive spirits cannot be true ones.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 76 What is all righteousness that men devise? What—but a sordid bargain for the skies?

1818 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform 50 That they should sell the attachment of their friends..for dry and sordid gain.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 162 His courage, his abilities,..had made him, in spite of his sordid vices, a favourite with his brethren in arms.

1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens III. xvi. ii. 193 Though he got her money, he had never ceased repenting of his sordid act.

b. Lacking in refinement; low, coarse, rough.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective]

untheweda1325

unbenec1400

incondite1539

undight1555

ungentle1565

impolished1583

transalpinea1592

impolited1598

uncourtly1598

tartarous1602

impolite1612

unelevated1627

unfashioned1630

unbrushed1640

unhewed1644

hirsute1658

unhewn1659

inelegant1667

sordid1668

ingenteel1694

barbarous1700

ungracefula1732

tramontane1740

uninformed1754

clumsy1758

heavy1817

uncharmed1818

nettle-rough1850

blowzy1851

mal élevé1878

inexquisite1922

pseudo-sophisticated1925

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined

boistousc1300

untheweda1325

uplandisha1387

unaffiled1390

rudea1393

knavishc1405

peoplisha1425

clubbedc1440

blunt1477

lob?1507

robust1511

borel1513

carterly1519

clubbish1530

rough?1531

rustical?1532

incondite1539

agrestc1550

rusticc1550

brute1555

lobcocka1556

loutisha1556

carterlike1561

boorish1562

ruggedc1565

lobbish1567

loutlike1567

sowish1570

clownish1581

unrefined1582

impolished1583

homespun1590

transalpinea1592

swaddish1593

unpolished1594

untutored1595

swabberly1596

tartarous1602

porterly1603

lobcocked1606

lob-like1606

cluster-fisted1611

agrestic1617

inurbane1623

unelevated1627

incult1628

unbrushed1640

vulgar1643

unhewed1644

unsmooth1648

hirsute1658

loutardly1658

unhewn1659

roughsome?c1660

sordid1668

inhumanea1680

coarse1699

brutal1709

ramgunshoch1721

tramontane1740

uncouth1740

no-nationa1756

unurbane1760

turnipy1792

rudas1802

common1804

cubbish1819

clodhopping1828

vulgarian1833

cloddish1844

unkempt1846

bush1851

vulgarish1860

rodney1866

crude1876

ignorant1886

yobby1910

nekulturny1932

oikish1959

yobbish1966

ocker1972

down and dirty1977

1668 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 278 Edward Wivel..permits their sordid Conventicls to be..kept ther.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 15 Long immured In noon~tide darkness by the glimmering lamp, Each Muse and each fair Science pined away The sordid hours.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 168. ⁋3 To him who has passed most of his hours with the delicate and polite, many expressions will seem sordid.

c. absol. That which is sordid or mean.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > that which is contemptible

buggerlugs1839

sordid1863

dog shit1944

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness > that which is

sordid1863

1863 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 21 Whatever there was of sordid about the story had slipped off him.

1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold iii. 189 Frankly, I hate the sordid and unpleasant.

6. Of persons, their character, etc.: Inclined to what is low, mean, or ignoble; esp. moved by selfish or mercenary motives; influenced only by material considerations.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid

sordidous1602

sordid1636

seedy1725

sleazy1941

sleazoid1976

1636 R. Freeman tr. Seneca Shortn. Life (1663) 34 He sordid is, who catch'd with rude applause, Grown old, dies wrangling in a worthlesse cause.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 171 These Nations.., that are so unpolitick, may justly be called wild men, and of a sordid disposition.

1687 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 241 He is sordid still, and nothing will change his base humour.

1727 J. Gay Fables I. xix. 65 A Lyon-cub of sordid mind, Avoided all the lyon kind.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xli. 561 They are inveighed against as a base and sordid people.

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xxii. 101 Her comrade was a sordid soul.

1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 108 The land..will probably be purchased by some sordid person upon the speculation of making us pay an inordinate rent.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 203 All men of the world are sordid, and the more worldly the more sordid.

absolute.1762 W. Cowper To Miss Macartney 54 Thus grief itself has comforts dear, The sordid never know.

B. n.

One who is sordid. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]

mesela1400

scabbardc1440

slotterbugc1440

drivel1498

sow1508

wallydraigle?a1513

sloven1530

filthy1553

ketterela1572

slabberer1611

slubberdegullion1612

Grobian1621

slabberdegullion1653

slobber-chops1670

slate1718

haverel1720

slobberer1732

slummock1760

fleabag1805

slush1825

slob1876

trashbag1887

crumb1918

garbage can1925

hog1932

crud1940

sordid1959

grot1970

1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 13 All the old tax-payers know of this because, of course, for one thing, the poor old sordids recollect their own glorious teenage days.

1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 184 It doesn't seem possible such sordids as this lot could frighten you.

1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred ix. 97 My children regarded everybody over the age of thirty as old sordids, old weirdies, ruins, hardly human at all.

Compounds

C1. sordid-base; with participial adjective, as sordid-seeming.

ΚΠ

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. v, in Wks. I. 28 To thinke, a fellow of thy outward presence Should (in the frame, and fashion of his mind) Be so degenerate, and sordid-base!

1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xiv. 329 The dreary, to her sordid-seeming Campagna.

C2. Zoology. In the names of a few fishes or birds, in allusion to their dirty-looking colour.

sordid chaetodon n.

ΚΠ

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 370 Sordid Chætodon... Dusky-grey Chætodon; native of the Arabian seas.

sordid dragonet n.

ΚΠ

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 147 The Sordid Dragonet..Dracunculus.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 266 The Sordid Dragonet..generally occurs of small size.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 176 Sordid dragonet, dusky skulpin.

sordid scarus n.

ΚΠ

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 400 Sordid Scarus... Brown-ferruginous Scarus.

sordid thrush n.

ΚΠ

1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 186 Sordid Thrush... The plumage in general is greenish ash.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sordid
释义	sordidadj.n. Brit. /ˈsɔːdɪd/, U.S. /ˈsɔrdəd/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sordide, 1600s sorded. Etymology: < French sordide (16th cent. in Godefroy; = Spanish sordido , Portuguese sordido , Italian sordido ), or < Latin sordidus dirty, foul, base, mean, etc., < sordēre to be dirty: compare sordes n. A. adj. I. In physical senses: foul, dirty, and related uses. 1. Pathology. a. Of suppurations, etc.: corrupt, foul, repulsive; of the nature of sordes. ΚΠ 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. L iij b The vlcers [are] inequal, sordides [sic],..euill fauoured, by reason of the humor, which is most sordide and stinking. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 137 The skin parched, or soaked with sordid, fetid sweat. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 627 There is a dejection of sordid pus in considerable abundance. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvi. 161 An old grey-white accumulation of sordid epithelial detritus. b. Of an ulcer, wound, etc.: yielding or discharging matter of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] fouleOE festereda1398 quitterya1398 quittorousa1398 festrya1400 purulent?a1425 suppurate?a1425 matterativec1487 mattereda1500 mattery1527 attery1535 sanious1562 festering1563 matterish1566 infestered1570 ulcerated1580 suppurated1583 sordid1597 corsie1605 fistulating1607 rankling1631 suppurable1634 rancorous1635 undercotted1636 undercotting1637 suppuratory1659 puriform1668 quittorish1668 suppurating1671 scandalous1676 suppurative1746 suppurant1799 gleety1822 puruloid1846 pyoid1846 colloid substance1849 peptic1884 pussy1888 maturable1889 fretty1894 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > discharge of putrid matter gleeting1527 running1535 mattering1547 sordid1597 sordidous1608 ichorous1651 ichorose1710 1597 [see sense A. 1a]. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. ii. i. 165 There is a second sort of Matter affecting Ulcers that is thick, generated of abundance of gross tough Humours, and rendering the Ulcer foul; whence it is called a Sordid Vlcer. 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 291 The Wound was very sordid; and the inside as well as the outside beset with Slime. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 384 The disease corrodes the fingers and toes with a dry, sordid, scabby, and gangrenous ulcer. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 163 The incision on the left arm, which..had degenerated into a sordid ulcer. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 538 In several sordid cutaneous eruptions. 2. a. Dirty, foul, filthy; repellent through want of cleanness or tidiness; in later use, mean and squalid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean ungoderlyc1400 sluttish?1529 squalid1596 scrubbing1603 sordid1611 snotty1681 frowzy1710 grub1719 seedy1725 unkempt1838 grubby1844 crumby1859 ratty1867 scruffy1871 scrutty1914 scummy1932 ribby1936 raunchy1937 sleazy1941 scroungy1948 manky1958 skanky1963 grungy1965 scungy1966 scuzzy1969 scrungy1974 skeevy1976 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sordide, sordide, foule, filthie, corrupt. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 390 Sordid, senslesse, namelesse dust. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick iv. vii. 116 The choller and flegm which is more..impure, swims at the top, and so the blood seems impure and sordid. 1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 10 [I will] rather..live on sordid scraps at proud mens doors. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 [They] sprinkle sordid Ashes all around. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 The Trout is banish'd by the sordid Stream. 1836 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Nature iii. 27 In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple. b. Of places, houses, etc. ΚΠ a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 246 To finde a languishing wretch in a sordid corner. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 Their houses..within are poore and sordid. 1670 Philos. Trans. 1669 (Royal Soc.) 4 1136 The sweepings of the house, any kind of ashes, shovelings of any sordid place. 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxxviii. 19 Whilst thy cold embers choke the sordid hearth of shame. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 122 Stately edifices..were doomed to fall into decay and be succeeded by sordid hovels. 1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 56 She has escaped from her sordid surroundings. c. Of life, conditions, etc. ΚΠ 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. v. 110 Through their owne nastinesse & sluttishnesse, & immund sordid maner of life, suffer their aire to putrifie. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 108 The sordid and nasty way that the Ambassadour and all his train lived in. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 86 What a kind of barbarous and sordid Life we must necessarily have lived. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. ii. §13. 70 We..may have imagined..that Abraham lived in a sordid plenty. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. iv. 206 He can procure a sordid meal. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 265 With tattered raiment and all the outward signs of sordid misery. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 132 Dick's experience of the sordid misery of want. d. Of garments or clothing. ΚΠ 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 7 Wear the same garment in Winter as in Summer, and that sordid. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 366 In a sordid and squalid Habit. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 14 The Magistrate had too great an Honour for Truth to suspect that she ever appeared in sordid Apparel. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xli. 149 Sordid and scanty were their garments. 1851 R. C. Trench Poems (1862) 183 They put the sordid grave clothes off. †3. Of persons (or animals): Dirty or sluttish in habits or appearance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] sluttishc1405 sluttya1425 slut?a1513 drabbish1566 drabby1612 sordid1613 slithy1622 sleathy1652 slattering1673 slatternly1677 slattern1683 trapish1703 slammerkin1742 trolloping1770 unheppen1790 trollopy1800 slatternish1833 haveless1868 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 232 They abstaine from swines flesh: neither will that sweete aire of Arabia breath life to that sordide and stinking creature. 1664 H. More Apol. 517 Provided we be not course and sordid, but reverent and comely in our public worship. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ¶5 The Person he chanced to see was to Appearance an old sordid Blind Man. II. In extended senses: coarse, low, or mean in nature or character. †4. Of a coarse, gross, or inferior character or nature; befitting or appertaining to a mean person or thing; menial. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] evil971 lowc1175 poor?c1225 feeblec1275 vilea1300 petty1372 unthende1377 secondary1386 petitc1390 unmeeta1393 illa1400 commonc1400 coarse1424 indigent1426 unlikelyc1450 lesser1464 gross1474 naughty1526 inferior1531 reprobate?1545 slender1577 unlikely1578 puny1579 under1580 wooden1592 sordid1596 puisne1598 provant1601 subministrant1604 inferious1607 sublunary1624 indifferent1638 undermatched1642 unworthy1646 underly1648 turncoated1650 female1652 undergraduate1655 farandinical1675 baddishc1736 ungenerous1745 understrapping1762 tinnified1794 demi-semi1805 shabby1805 dicky1819 poor white1821 tin-pot1838 deterior1848 substandard1850 crumby1859 cheesy1863 po'1866 not-quite1867 rocky1873 mouldy1876 low-grade1878 sketchy1878 midget1879 junky1880 ullaged1892 abysmal1904 bodgie1905 junk1908 crap1936 ropy1941 bodger1945 two-star1951 tripey1955 manky1958 schlocky1960 cack1978 wank1991 bowf1994 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] draffsacked1548 sordid1596 dunghilly1616 proletarious1654 proletaneous1656 proletical1659 raff1761 raffish1795 proletarian1848 riff-raffy1850 proletary1854 low-down1865 underworld1929 lumpenproletarian1936 prole1938 nitty-gritty1948 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q3 She..In his hand a distaffe to him gaue, That he thereon should spin both flax and tow; A sordid office for a mind so braue. View more context for this quotation 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Cc1^v Hee did thinke much to dispute with any, that did alledge such base and Sordide instances. View more context for this quotation a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. i. §8. 189 Not onely in liberall and ingenious Arts, but also in sordide and ignoble. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 91 Modesty teacheth us to decline sordid things. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 106 By which means it was redeem'd from that sordid use. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 168. ⁋6 The long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices. 5. a. Of actions, habits, etc.: Of a low, mean, or despicable character; marked by or proceeding from ignoble motives, esp. of self-interest or monetary gain. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid > specifically of actions, habits, etc. sordidous1602 sordid1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Taquinerie, sordide miserie,..base pinching. 1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 106 His sordide and base dissembling. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 35 The Clergy using all the basest and sordidest Arts possible to draw Legacies from Rich Widows. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. ii. 19 We see, in the behaviour, and sordid acquiescence with insults, of these three men, that offensive spirits cannot be true ones. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 76 What is all righteousness that men devise? What—but a sordid bargain for the skies? 1818 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform 50 That they should sell the attachment of their friends..for dry and sordid gain. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 162 His courage, his abilities,..had made him, in spite of his sordid vices, a favourite with his brethren in arms. 1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens III. xvi. ii. 193 Though he got her money, he had never ceased repenting of his sordid act. b. Lacking in refinement; low, coarse, rough. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] untheweda1325 unbenec1400 incondite1539 undight1555 ungentle1565 impolished1583 transalpinea1592 impolited1598 uncourtly1598 tartarous1602 impolite1612 unelevated1627 unfashioned1630 unbrushed1640 unhewed1644 hirsute1658 unhewn1659 inelegant1667 sordid1668 ingenteel1694 barbarous1700 ungracefula1732 tramontane1740 uninformed1754 clumsy1758 heavy1817 uncharmed1818 nettle-rough1850 blowzy1851 mal élevé1878 inexquisite1922 pseudo-sophisticated1925 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 1668 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 278 Edward Wivel..permits their sordid Conventicls to be..kept ther. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 15 Long immured In noon~tide darkness by the glimmering lamp, Each Muse and each fair Science pined away The sordid hours. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 168. ⁋3 To him who has passed most of his hours with the delicate and polite, many expressions will seem sordid. c. absol. That which is sordid or mean. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > that which is contemptible buggerlugs1839 sordid1863 dog shit1944 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness > that which is sordid1863 1863 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 21 Whatever there was of sordid about the story had slipped off him. 1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold iii. 189 Frankly, I hate the sordid and unpleasant. 6. Of persons, their character, etc.: Inclined to what is low, mean, or ignoble; esp. moved by selfish or mercenary motives; influenced only by material considerations. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid sordidous1602 sordid1636 seedy1725 sleazy1941 sleazoid1976 1636 R. Freeman tr. Seneca Shortn. Life (1663) 34 He sordid is, who catch'd with rude applause, Grown old, dies wrangling in a worthlesse cause. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 171 These Nations.., that are so unpolitick, may justly be called wild men, and of a sordid disposition. 1687 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 241 He is sordid still, and nothing will change his base humour. 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xix. 65 A Lyon-cub of sordid mind, Avoided all the lyon kind. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xli. 561 They are inveighed against as a base and sordid people. 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xxii. 101 Her comrade was a sordid soul. 1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 108 The land..will probably be purchased by some sordid person upon the speculation of making us pay an inordinate rent. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 203 All men of the world are sordid, and the more worldly the more sordid. absolute.1762 W. Cowper To Miss Macartney 54 Thus grief itself has comforts dear, The sordid never know. B. n. One who is sordid. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] mesela1400 scabbardc1440 slotterbugc1440 drivel1498 sow1508 wallydraigle?a1513 sloven1530 filthy1553 ketterela1572 slabberer1611 slubberdegullion1612 Grobian1621 slabberdegullion1653 slobber-chops1670 slate1718 haverel1720 slobberer1732 slummock1760 fleabag1805 slush1825 slob1876 trashbag1887 crumb1918 garbage can1925 hog1932 crud1940 sordid1959 grot1970 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 13 All the old tax-payers know of this because, of course, for one thing, the poor old sordids recollect their own glorious teenage days. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 184 It doesn't seem possible such sordids as this lot could frighten you. 1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred ix. 97 My children regarded everybody over the age of thirty as old sordids, old weirdies, ruins, hardly human at all. Compounds C1. sordid-base; with participial adjective, as sordid-seeming. ΚΠ 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. v, in Wks. I. 28 To thinke, a fellow of thy outward presence Should (in the frame, and fashion of his mind) Be so degenerate, and sordid-base! 1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xiv. 329 The dreary, to her sordid-seeming Campagna. C2. Zoology. In the names of a few fishes or birds, in allusion to their dirty-looking colour. sordid chaetodon n. ΚΠ 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 370 Sordid Chætodon... Dusky-grey Chætodon; native of the Arabian seas. sordid dragonet n. ΚΠ 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 147 The Sordid Dragonet..Dracunculus. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 266 The Sordid Dragonet..generally occurs of small size. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 176 Sordid dragonet, dusky skulpin. sordid scarus n. ΚΠ 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 400 Sordid Scarus... Brown-ferruginous Scarus. sordid thrush n. ΚΠ 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 186 Sordid Thrush... The plumage in general is greenish ash. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1596
随便看	persons of the drama personshaping personship persontoperson personyear persorption persp perspectartigraph perspection perspectival perspectivally perspective perspective control perspective glass perspective piece perspective plane perspective projection perspective shell perspective trunk perspective-free perspective-suggesting perspectived perspectivefree perspectiveless perspectively