sordid

Example Sentences

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Long before his role in the Epstein case came to light, Brunel already had a sordid reputation in the fashion world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 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

For those outside the citadel—anti-boomer millennials, Gen Z, the underpaid and aggrieved—the Epstein revelations tell a sordid story they’ve long suspected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Chu has spent a decade trying to bring accountability to immigration detention and knows this sordid industry better than any.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

Whatever I had learnt, had so slipped away from me in the sordid cares of my life from day to night, that now, when I was examined about what I knew, I knew nothing.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz