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Significados de sordid en inglés

Morally degraded.

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Foul and run-down and repulsive.

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Examples for "squalid"
Examples for "squalid"
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I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
The Naked God
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Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
Reuters
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Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
Reuters
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Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
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The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
The new yorker
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In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
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The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
The Beast Within
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The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
The new yorker
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A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
I'll never get out of this world alive
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To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
Monday Mourning
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He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
Storm Front
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Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
Raging Heat
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In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
The Guardian
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The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
Abaddon's Gate
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Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
Etiquette
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But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
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Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
The Irish Times
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And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
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Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...

Unethical or dishonest.

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Sordid.

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Uso de sordid en inglés
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Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
The Irish Times
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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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