sordid
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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
In “Gotham at War,” Mr. Wallace takes us on a fascinating excursion into both the now lost yet somehow familiar human superstructure, and the sometimes sordid underbelly, of the city we know today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Many accounts of the Murdaugh family’s sordid history mention that the five-county South Carolina district doubling as their fiefdom was nicknamed Murdaugh Country.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025
But sordid details emerged during the legal cases, revealing a darker side.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 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
Vocabulary lists containing sordid
1984
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Grade 12, List 2
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Heart of Darkness
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