sordid

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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

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

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

But sordid details emerged during the legal cases, revealing a darker side.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

Instead, they portrayed Dr. Kane as selflessly helping a young girl rise from her sordid profession by providing a proper education—polishing his image as a kind of super-generous superhero.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock