figurative and in figurative context.

Sordidness. Meanness, miserliness, baseness.

Meanness, sordidness.

Uncleanness of language; sordidness of action.

Baseness or meanness; esp. low, mean, or mercenary character or motives; selfish regard for material gain in place of higher interests.

The fact or quality of being sleazy.

Physical or moral sordidness.

The quality or condition of being morally dubious or disreputable; sleaziness.

figurative. The quality of being morally squalid; the quality or state of being mentally squalid, or of lacking intellectual sensitivity and order.

Squalor; sordidness, sleaziness; dilapidation; (something of) inferior quality or low moral standards. Also attributive.