sordid
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Appeared in the February 18, 2026, print edition as 'HBO’s Sordid Kentucky Tale'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
My first exposure to him was in one of my favorite movies Sordid Lives!
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022
A Very Sordid Wedding Family members stir up their small Texas town by protesting an Anti-Equality Rally and defending gay marriage.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2017
She took a recurring role that year in the TV series Sordid Lives.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010
Sordid fellows are not safe from genius even in the grave.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Vocabulary lists containing sordid
1984
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Grade 12, List 2
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