Synonyms
Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
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Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
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Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
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But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
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In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
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A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
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He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
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But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
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Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
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I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
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Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
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Squeezed between squalid living conditions and falling wages, Glasgow's workers fought back.
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Conditions in detention centers in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
8
There was barely standing-room in it beside the filthy and squalid bed.
9
So the general appearance of a Chinese town is squalid and tumbledown.
10
Marnie had its moments and Frenzy was a squalid return to form.
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The squalid drama with the same actors evidently had been played before.
12
All before her and alongside lay the squalid environs of the town.
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The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances.
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The more squalid the people, the more reason there was for going.
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Because it and the Labour Party were at the same squalid business.
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Staying hidden in that squalid room had made him wretched and homesick.
