All 5 Uses of
sordid
in
Jane Eyre
- Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground.†
p. 214.2 *
- "The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," he answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.†
p. 249.4
- I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible.†
p. 376.9
- they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction.†
p. 427.8
- I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement.†
p. 452.7
Definition:
immoral, dishonest, or disgusting