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sordidness

NOUN
ignominy
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NOUN
venality
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Despite the pungent combination of brevity and sordidness, the actors acquit themselves by finding candid portrayals of the condemned classmates.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

But on “Housewives”? This level of sordidness is not what viewers are here for.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022

The Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

Before the base and foul their sordidness was brought to light.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee




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