sordidadjective
uk/ˈsɔː.dɪd/us/ˈsɔːr.dɪd/sordid adjective (DIRTY)
dirty and unpleasant:
There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city's poorer areas.
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Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the place idiom
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodstained
- cat
- inky
- look like something the cat brought/dragged in idiom
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- ragged
- squalid
- streaky
- tangle
- tangled
- tarnish
- tousled
- unclean
- unkempt
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sordid adjective (IMMORAL)
morally wrong and shocking:
He told me he'd had an affair but he spared me the sordid details.
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- immoral
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wickedness
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sordidly
adverb uk/ˈsɔː.dɪd.li/us/ˈsɔːr.dɪd.li/
sordidness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈsɔː.dɪd.nəs/us/ˈsɔːr.dɪd.nəs/