Meaning

5 senses
  1. Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

    The politician was involved in a sordid money laundering scheme.

    widerwärtig, verachtenswert, niederträchtig

    огиднийohydnyj, мерзеннийmerzennyj

  2. Dirty or squalid.

    They rented a sordid apartment together.

    dreckig, schäbig, schmutzig

    гря́зныйgrjáznyj

    бруднийbrudnyj

  3. Morally degrading.

    schmutzig, schäbig

    опустившийсяopustivšijsja, ни́зкийnízkij

    morally degraded

  4. Grasping; stingy; avaricious.

    geizig

    коры́стныйkorýstnyj, жа́дныйžádnyj

    корисливийkoryslyvyj

    meanly avaricious and mercenary

  5. Of a dull colour.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Sami's sordid love affair destroyed his marriage.

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  2. Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

    deDas Leben kann so leicht in etwas Schmutziges und Vulgäres entarten.

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  3. Can you understand why they have to pig it in one sordid room?

    deKannst du begreifen, warum sie in einem einzigen armseligen Raum hausen müssen?

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  4. He resists the sordid task.

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  5. Ziri hates Rima's sordid stories.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible:
dirty or squalid:
grasping:
Русский
By meaning 3
dirty or squalid:
morally degrading:
grasping:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible:
dirty or squalid:
grasping:

Origin

From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.

From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.

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Forms

sordider, sordidest
Comparativesordider Lesson
Superlativesordidest Lesson

irregular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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