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单词 sordidness
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sordidnessn.

/ˈsɔːdɪdnɪs/
Etymology: < sordid adj. + -ness suffix.
The state or quality of being sordid.
1.
a. Dirtiness, filthiness; unclean or soiled character; squalor.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness
squalor1621
sorditude1623
sordidness1656
squalidity1668
squalidness1727
frowziness1729
sordor1823
seediness1832
fluffiness1860
grubbiness1866
crumbiness1949
raunch1952
scruffiness1974
grunginess1978
scuzziness1980
grottiness1984
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 92 To it [sc. money]..hath the very name of Sordidness been appropriated of old.
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 66 Carelesness, Sordidness in neglecting their own Bodies.
1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) ii. 357 To deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.
1819 L. Hunt Indicator 1 Dec. 64 He sat looking at his old beard and the wilful sordidness of his hands.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 2 At the first glance the men looked all alike; their heads being shaved, and their dress uniform in its sordidness.
b. Lack of refinement or elegance; coarseness or roughness. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun]
simplessea1393
roughnessa1398
rudenessc1405
unrefinedness1607
simpleness1648
unpolishedness1652
unpoliteness1700
sordidness1704
ungenteelness1706
indelicacy1712
unrefinement1769
ungentility1822
unprinceliness1855
outbackery1961
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 266 Nor did she prefer the order, and decency of the Church of England, before the sordidness of the Kirk of Scotland.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxv. 293 They were offended at the sordidness of the food offered to them.
2. Baseness or meanness; esp. low, mean, or mercenary character or motives; selfish regard for material gain in place of higher interests.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness
mirec1400
sordidity1584
dirta1625
dirtiness1649
sordidness1656
sleaziness1727
sordor1823
seediness1852
squalor1860
sleaze1967
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xcix. 133 Keeping continually..hid within the husk of their interest..with so much sordidness and obstinacy never to come out.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland ix. 34 Their Priests who..vilify their doctrine by the sordidness of their lives.
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. ii. viii. 269 His chiefest Advice to them about him was to abhor all Rapine and Sordidness.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. vi. 90 If none with avarice justly brand my fame, With sordidness, or deeds too vile to name.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 61 The sordidness of your mind and manners.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. iii. 106 I blush to remember this..on account of the sordidness of the custom.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. xi. 55 An extraordinary mixture of..fearlessness with sordidness.
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Dec. 2 The result is but a just retribution on our sordidness and Pharisaism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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