All 3 Uses of
sordid
in
The House of Mirth
- "You think me horribly sordid, don't you?†
Chpt 1.6
- She was realizing for the first time that a woman's dignity may cost more to keep up than her carriage; and that the maintenance of a moral attribute should be dependent on dollars and cents, made the world appear a more sordid place than she had conceived it.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- The gratification of being welcomed in high company, and of making her own ascendency felt there, so that she found herself figuring once more as the "beautiful Miss Bart" in the interesting journal devoted to recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions—all these experiences tended to throw into the extreme background of memory the prosaic and sordid difficulties from which she had escaped.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(sordid) morally degraded; or foul and repulsive