Both Uses of
sordid
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He had tried to build a break-water of order and elegance against the sordid tide of life without him and to dam up, by rules of conduct and active interest and new filial relations, the powerful recurrence of the tides within him.†
Chpt 2
- The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(sordid) morally degraded; or foul and repulsive