sordid
Example Sentences
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A more discreet landlord would have concealed this sordid history.
From Los Angeles Times
Also, a team’s financial well-being is ensured by the league divvying up television’s billions, every franchise profiting equally, no matter a franchise’s sorry, sordid, serial instances of incompetence.
From Washington Post
Then “Prima Facie” makes its own sordid case clear when the justice tables turn on her.
From Washington Post
“Selling body parts has a long and sordid history,” Mone said.
From Los Angeles Times
On the heels of sordid revelations about police behavior, the city of Antioch and its Police Department have been named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging police brutality and racial discrimination.
From Los Angeles Times
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