sordor
/ˈsɔːdə
/noun [mass noun] chiefly literary
Physical or moral sordidness: the cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets...
- 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’.
- Tianjin and Beijing are two other cities where the work of extirpating public sordor and decadence was successfully carried out.
Origin
Early 19th century: from sordid, on the pattern of the pair squalid, squalor.