单词 | sordidness |
释义 | sordidnessn. 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). < n.1656 |
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