Sentence for sordid | Use sordid in a sentence

Sentences using the word sordid. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use sordid in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for sordid.

  • It was a sordid business. (8)
  • This sordid misery narrowed it. (10)
  • They were as little sordid as creatures could be. (10)
  • As in the flash of a mirror, he beheld her bony, worn, sordid, unacceptable. (10)
  • As in the flash of a mirror, he beheld her bony, worn, sordid, unacceptable. (22)
  • It is a grief to me to know that she is sordid: it hurts my vanity the more. (10)
  • There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops. (2)
  • Her eyes were blind to the sordid lines in the picture; her ears deaf to the discordant notes. (13)
  • Nothing sordid need be said or, indeed, perceived; all may be left to the workings of human nature. (16)
  • It was not choice, so much as an external fate, that kept Fergusson in this round of sordid pleasures. (2)
  • What I feel sure is that I can never look at life in the mean and sordid way that I did before I read Tolstoy. (9)
  • But feeling that it was sordid to pursue this thought, they looked away, and, eating hastily, began pursuing it. (8)
  • Nevertheless she did not despise him as she might have despised him at the time of their marriage for his sordid soul. (13)
  • Through all his melancholy and munificence he was aware of sordid anxieties for having taken the Grosvenor Green apartment. (9)
  • Excellent again are Mr. Palmer and his wife; excellent, in their sordid veracity, the self-seeking figures of the Miss Steeles. (4)
  • Roman, repent, and from within Eradicate thy darling sin; Repent, and from thy bosom tear The sordid shame that festers there. (18)
  • It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. (9)
  • Resting his tired feet in turn, he looked like overwork personified, and when he moved, each limb accused the sordid smartness of the walls. (8)
  • It is a shockingly practical process, I admit; but then, we are a shockingly practical people, who prefer sordid results to inspired theories. (16)
  • Who would not wish his novel to sell five hundred thousand copies, for reasons besides the sordid love of gain which I am told governs novelists? (9)
  • He detailed a reckless, sordid, bold scheme, which, on the pivot of a trading venture, was intended to spin a whole wheel of political convulsions. (8)
  • He lost himself in fancies about her and her ideals, necessarily sordid, of her possibilities of suffering, of the triumphs and disappointments before her. (9)

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Definition of sordid:

  • sordid, sor’did, adj. dirty, squalid: of a dull colour: morally foul, vile: mean: meanly avaricious. | n. sor’des, filth, foul accretions on the teeth in low forms of fever. | adv. sor’didly. | ns. sor’didness, state of being sordid; sor’dor, filth, dregs. (0)

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