Sample Sentences for
sordid
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    In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labor was lifted from the animals' backs.  (source)
    sordid = morally degraded
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    I lied, made stuff up, told him all the sordid things he wanted to hear.  (source)
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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)
    sordid = disgusting or immoral
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    The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.†  (source)
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    And of course doing it with that musical saw would have eliminated any sordidness.†  (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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    But now this sordid business about the squares.†  (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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    Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.†  (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)
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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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    Details of a sordid affair with the flamboyant Monroe would have ruined the image of Camelot.†  (source)
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