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单词 sordor
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Definition of sordor in English:

sordor

noun 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:

sordor

nounˈsôrdər
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.

 
 
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