All 5 Uses of
sordid
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- I felt that this gray, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its splendid sinners, and its sordid sins, as you once said, must have something in store for me.†
Chpt 3 *
- If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.†
Chpt 5
- You went to the Opera while Sibyl Vane was lying dead in some sordid lodging?†
Chpt 7
- They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensuous.†
Chpt 9
- There were moments, indeed, at night, when, lying sleepless in his own delicately-scented chamber, or in the sordid room of the little ill-famed tavern near the Docks, which, under an assumed name, and in disguise, it was his habit to frequent, he would think of the ruin he had brought upon his soul, with a pity that was all the more poignant because it was purely selfish.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(sordid) morally degraded; or foul and repulsive