单词	sordid
释义	sordidsor‧did /ˈsɔːdɪd $ ˈsɔːr-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINsordid Origin: 1500-1600 Latin sordidus, from sordes ‘dirt’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a sordid crime the sordid slums of modern cities The details of their affair were sordid and ugly. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair. But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities. Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect, and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends. It awed me by how beautiful it could still appear in that sordid place. Out of this sordid mix of political short-sightedness and commercial greed, no government emerges with clean hands. Their sordid dormitory was attacked by hooligans. They asked him all the questions he had dreaded, and tried to make the relationship sound ugly and sordid. Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing? Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► sordid business/affair/story etc  The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details! COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► affair · George Broomham was questioned, but only briefly, before he admitted the whole sordid affair.· All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair.· To drag me into her sordid affairs. ► story · Her own sordid story could only be a bad influence on such a young and impressionable mind.· It is a mildly sordid story. 1involving immoral or dishonest behavioursordid business/affair/story etc The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. I want to hear all the sordid details!2very dirty and unpleasant SYN  squalid:  a sordid little room
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