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Definition of sordor in English: sordornoun ˈsɔːdəˈsôrdər mass nounliterary Physical or moral sordidness. the cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets Example sentencesExamples - Sadly, it has now been given over to sordor, housing a ‘VIP Sauna Club’.
- Tianjin and Beijing are two other cities where the work of extirpating public sordor and decadence was successfully carried out.
- The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
- But the book begins to flag in the middle, as if dampened by the hazily recollected sordor of his life in the 1960s.
- His semi in ‘Foulness, near Southend’ has long been reduced to ‘a condition of untouchable sordor’, and is also ‘saturated with pornography in all its forms’.
Origin Early 19th century: from sordid, on the pattern of the pair squalid, squalor. Rhymes awarder, boarder, border, defrauder, hoarder, Korda, marauder, order, recorder, warder Definition of sordor in US English: sordornounˈsôrdər literary Physical or moral sordidness. the cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets Example sentencesExamples - But the book begins to flag in the middle, as if dampened by the hazily recollected sordor of his life in the 1960s.
- The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
- Tianjin and Beijing are two other cities where the work of extirpating public sordor and decadence was successfully carried out.
- His semi in ‘Foulness, near Southend’ has long been reduced to ‘a condition of untouchable sordor’, and is also ‘saturated with pornography in all its forms’.
- Sadly, it has now been given over to sordor, housing a ‘VIP Sauna Club’.
Origin Early 19th century: from sordid, on the pattern of the pair squalid, squalor. |