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Meanings of
sordidly
in English
Spanish
sórdidamente
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In a sordid or squalid way.
squalidly
Spanish
sórdidamente
Usage of
sordidly
in English
1
They remorselessly pulled down, or patched meanly and
sordidly
,
the old work.
2
And it is even better never to be happy than to be
sordidly
happy.
3
Something ironically vulgar,
sordidly
tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith.
4
What they were selling purported to be an alternative to a
sordidly
commercial food industry.
5
I am condemned as brutally profligate: I am classed with the stupidly and
sordidly
wicked.
6
The whole affair was, so to speak,
sordidly
innocent.
7
He was an ingenuous youth,
sordidly
shabby and dirty.
8
But it had been
sordidly
dull, as muffled as a gun fired through a silencer.
9
The spirit of the place has not changed; it is as it was, splendidly and
sordidly
commercial.
10
They have always seemed too
sordidly
poverty-stricken.
11
They all seemed so
sordidly
,
hopelessly shabby.
12
Such a
sordidly
domestic person was she!
13
Doubtless fanaticism, hypocrisy, and a self-interest that looked
sordidly
even at heaven, mingled in bringing about the decision.
14
It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling
sordidly
for material benefits.
15
This was being poor
sordidly
,
vulgarly.
16
For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which,
sordidly
speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's.
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sordidly
Adverb
Frequent collocations
sordidly avaricious
sordidly commercial
look sordidly
scramble sordidly
sordidly domestic
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Translations for
sordidly
Spanish
sórdidamente
escuálido
sórdido
Sordidly
through the time