sordidness

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Indeed, the best Schemes miscarried thro' his Sordidness, and yet with all these Faults, he maintain'd his Ascendency over the Prince, so that no Courtier dared utter any Complaint against him.

From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de

Sordidness rejected The Atlantic traditions, for the most part, have rejected the harrowing and the sordid and the meretricious.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

Sordidness in commercial life is not necessary: greed is not foreordained.

From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

Sordidness lay beneath us, but up there under the heavens we seemed removed from it as any Babylonian astronomer communing with the stars.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax