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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sordid \Sor"did\, adjective [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See {Swart}, adjective]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. --Dryden.
2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." --Milton.
3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J. Denham.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adjective
1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy}, {sordid}, {squalid}]
2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: {dirty}, {sordid}]
3: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" [syn: {flyblown}, {squalid}, {sordid}]
4: meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
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