They remorselessly pulled down, or patched meanly and sordidly, the old work.

And it is even better never to be happy than to be sordidly happy.

Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith.

What they were selling purported to be an alternative to a sordidly commercial food industry.

I am condemned as brutally profligate: I am classed with the stupidly and sordidly wicked.

The whole affair was, so to speak, sordidly innocent.

He was an ingenuous youth, sordidly shabby and dirty.

But it had been sordidly dull, as muffled as a gun fired through a silencer.

The spirit of the place has not changed; it is as it was, splendidly and sordidly commercial.

They have always seemed too sordidly poverty-stricken.

They all seemed so sordidly, hopelessly shabby.

Such a sordidly domestic person was she!

Doubtless fanaticism, hypocrisy, and a self-interest that looked sordidly even at heaven, mingled in bringing about the decision.

It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits.

This was being poor sordidly, vulgarly.

For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which, sordidly speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's.