sordid
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the locals continued to pursue their delightfully sordid lifestyles with a lot more personal privacy than would seem likely in smalltown America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 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
The best evidence of that sordid policy comes from Kissinger’s own National Security Council files, including near-verbatim transcripts of his face-to-face negotiations with communist leaders.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
Yet the boy’s yearning for family outweighs his sordid circumstances.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing sordid
1984
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Grade 12, List 2
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Heart of Darkness
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