All 4 Uses of
sordid
in
Man And Superman
- His thousand and three affairs of gallantry, after becoming, at most, two immature intrigues leading to sordid and prolonged complications and humiliations, have been discarded altogether as unworthy of his philosophic dignity and compromising to his newly acknowledged position as the founder of a school.†
Chpt Ded.
- There is nothing like Love: there is nothing else but Love: without it the world would be a dream of sordid horror.†
Chpt 2 *
- Stupidity made sordid and cruel by the realities learnt from toil and poverty: Imagination resolved to starve sooner than face these realities, piling up illusions to hide them, and calling itself cleverness, genius!†
Chpt 3
- I daresay you think that sordid; but I know what I'm talking about.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(sordid) morally degraded; or foul and repulsive