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Meanings of sordidness in English

Catalan
bastardia

Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.

        bastardia
        Portuguese
        esqualidez
        Spanish
        inmundicia

        Sordid dirtiness.

              esqualidez
              Usage of sordidness in English
              1
              For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
              The Lion's Share
              2
              The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
              Moby Dick
              3
              This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
              Anarchism and Other Essays
              4
              But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness.
              Mushrooms on the Moor
              5
              There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
              The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
              6
              Their very vulgarity and sordidness of nature would help instead of hindering him.
              Elder Conklin and Other Stories
              7
              The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and interest.
              The Purcell Papers — Volume 2
              8
              The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and heartlessness.
              J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
              9
              No instance of their sordidness or tyranny ever stole a murmur from her.
              Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
              10
              Vicious women have few vices, and sordidness is not usually one of them.
              Novel Notes
              11
              You've left me here day after day in this sordidness.
              The ginger man
              12
              He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.
              Martin Eden
              13
              Inside the camps one felt a still more cruel desolation-thatof sordidness and animalism.
              King Coal : a Novel
              14
              I become lost, I forget the world and its sordidness.
              The Man on the Box
              15
              There was no place for pessimism, no place for materialism, no place for sordidness.
              The Trumpeter Swan
              16
              We witness the sordidness of every crevice of their lives.
              Junky
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