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The detective uncovered the sordid details of the crime, revealing a web of lies and deceit.sordid = immoral or dishonest
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The politician’s sordid past was exposed by the media, causing a scandal and damaging his reputation.sordid = immoral, dishonest, or disgusting
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I guess it's to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom's. (source)sordid = disgusting or immoral
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Then, after I'd thought a bit longer, I rang Patrick and asked him how much he had got for his sordid little tip. (source)
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I lied, made stuff up, told him all the sordid things he wanted to hear. (source)sordid = morally degraded
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Above all he remembered his continuous hunger, and the fierce sordid battles at mealtimes. (source)sordid = morally degrading or disgusting
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Shouldn't it be less ordinary, more sordid, more epic, more truly harrowing, this flesh wound of yours?† (source)
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Jose Arcadio, who left the seminary as soon as he reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous inheritance of which his mother's delirious letters spoke and which would rescue him from the misery and sordidness he shared with two friends in a Trastevere garret.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke's; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down— Then it was that the cruelty of the sea, its relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me.† (source)
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Sophie Neveu seemed far too solid of character to be mixed up in something that sordid.† (source)
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She recalled all her instincts of luxury, all the privations of her soul, the sordidness of marriage, of the household, her dream sinking into the mire like wounded swallows; all that she had longed for, all that she had denied herself, all that she might have had!† (source)
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The ugliest thing about these stories was that they were all sordidly true.† (source)
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But now this sordid business about the squares.† (source)
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And of course doing it with that musical saw would have eliminated any sordidness.† (source)
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I owe it to myself, that I, a friendless, portionless, girl, with a blight upon my name, should not give your friends reason to suspect that I had sordidly yielded to your first passion, and fastened myself, a clog, on all your hopes and projects.† (source)
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Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.† (source)
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