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Meanings of sordid business in anglès

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Usage of sordid business in anglès
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Hughes was tired and shocked and dismayed by this whole sordid business.
IT
2
The whole sordid business has had only one aim-somepersonal gratification.
The Price of Things
3
It's blasphemy to connect Him with a sordid business like this.
The Fortunate Youth
4
Perhaps she should merely disrobe and get the whole sordid business over with quickly.
Gladiatrix
5
It was a sordid business that attracted every decadent, demented slimeball in the country.
When darkness comes
6
Crime is never anything but a sordid business, demonstrably poor in reward to its practitioners.
She Stands Accused
7
It is a seedy, sordid business, linked to drug deals, money laundering and the criminal underworld.
BBC
8
It was a sordid business, and I was not inclined to trouble myself with it further.
The Moon and Sixpence
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We won't have her mixed up in this sordid business, it's bad enough as it is.
The Summons
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It seems making a more sordid business of it even than signing the contract in a vestry.
Jude the Obscure
11
It was a sad and sordid business.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
12
If only she hadn't loved him; and it had been a soulless companionship, a quite sordid business.
Saint's Progress
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Dost canker thy soul with sordid business when all that be leal men and true make holiday?
The Prince and the Pauper
14
Eventually he got sick of the whole sordid business and handed it over to his professional interrogators.
The half-made world
15
My name is Arthur C. Clark, and I wish I had no connection with this whole sordid business.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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It was a miserable, mean, sordid business altogether; I am utterly, hopelessly ashamed of it and myself too.
A Honeymoon in Space
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