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Significats de sordid en anglès

Morally degraded.

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Foul and run-down and repulsive.

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Examples for "flyblown"
Examples for "flyblown"
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The blood around the flyblown wound was congealed but not completely dry.
Tough customer: a novel
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The ground floor consisted of a little Italian restaurant, of the flyblown sort.
A Set of Six
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On the walls were faded oleographs of generals and archbishops, flyblown and stained.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Valle Crusis has a blacksmith shop and a dirty, flyblown store.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
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A fellow gets flyblown if he stays in the field, so I beat it.
Rainbow's End

Unethical or dishonest.

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Sordid.

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Ús de sordid en anglès
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Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
The Irish Times
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
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Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
The Irish Times
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But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
NY Magazine
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There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
An Inland Voyage
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Christmas, they insist, is now simply another sordid sequence of consumerist transactions.
The Irish Times
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But the life and its end in this case were alike sordid.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
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The countryman sees nothing but the vile and sordid side of it.
What Prohibition Has Done to America
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This void emanates from damning reports into CSA's sordid history of maladministration.
The South African
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I am ashamed to stand huckling upon this point; it is sordid.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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She had been spoiled in the making for so sordid an existence.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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You can tell me all the sordid details later over a drink.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
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Zane Vhortghast knew them all on a sordid, personal or compromising level.
The last page
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For the first time Ruth gazed upon the sordid face of poverty.
Martin Eden
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Every feature of the little American college seemed all the more sordid.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
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The last touch to this tragedy was the sordid tinge of poverty.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
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