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Meanings of sordidly in inglês

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sórdidamente

In a sordid or squalid way.

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        Examples for "squalidly"
        Examples for "squalidly"
        1
        None of these categories had applied in the case of Robson's squalidly mediocre action.
        The Sense of an Ending
        2
        Its streets are squalidly flat, its houses meanly rectangular.
        The Helpmate
        3
        It all gets entangled and squalidly looms in the sad disarray of my confused sensations.
        The book of disquiet
        4
        New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay; but, prince or pauper, it's gay always.
        A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
        5
        It would seem that the inevitable accompaniment of such prosperity is the meanness of poorly-built and squalidly-kept suburbs.
        Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
        Usage of sordidly in inglês
        1
        They remorselessly pulled down, or patched meanly and sordidly, the old work.
        At Large
        2
        And it is even better never to be happy than to be sordidly happy.
        Gala-Days
        3
        Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith.
        The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
        4
        What they were selling purported to be an alternative to a sordidly commercial food industry.
        The Guardian
        5
        I am condemned as brutally profligate: I am classed with the stupidly and sordidly wicked.
        Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
        6
        The whole affair was, so to speak, sordidly innocent.
        Sir George Tressady — Volume I
        7
        He was an ingenuous youth, sordidly shabby and dirty.
        Twilight in Italy
        8
        But it had been sordidly dull, as muffled as a gun fired through a silencer.
        Demon: a memoir
        9
        The spirit of the place has not changed; it is as it was, splendidly and sordidly commercial.
        Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
        10
        They have always seemed too sordidly poverty-stricken.
        The Brimming Cup
        11
        They all seemed so sordidly, hopelessly shabby.
        Twilight in Italy
        12
        Such a sordidly domestic person was she!
        Sisters
        13
        Doubtless fanaticism, hypocrisy, and a self-interest that looked sordidly even at heaven, mingled in bringing about the decision.
        The End of the World: A Love Story
        14
        It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits.
        Revolution, and Other Essays
        15
        This was being poor sordidly, vulgarly.
        The Purple Heights
        16
        For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which, sordidly speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's.
        Roads of Destiny
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        Sordidly through the time