sordid
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Tsuda's legal team argued the account only gained traction because "its dubious, sordid content was narrated by the attractive voice of a popular actor".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
For a growing number of online sleuths, there is a booming business in peddling outlandish answers to those and other sordid questions raised by the trove of newly released files.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
Bridger was described by those who knew him as "always confident, courteous and charming" but when police seized his computer, a sordid secret was revealed.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
After she nurses him back to health, Matt falls madly in love only to freak out when he learns about her sordid past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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1984
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