Thesaurus / sordidness
FEEDBACK- avarice
- greed
- malice
- abjection
- baseness
- beastliness
- closeness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- debasement
- degeneracy
- degradation
- disrepute
- frugality
- infamy
- iniquity
- lowness
- malignity
- miserliness
- parsimony
- pettiness
- rapacity
- shamelessness
- stinginess
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- wickedness
- churlishness
- contemptibleness
- ill temper
- knavishness
- smallmindedness
- adversity
- anxiety
- burden
- calamity
- catastrophe
- difficulty
- grief
- misfortune
- ordeal
- poverty
- privation
- problem
- sorrow
- squalor
- woe
- affliction
- curse
- destitution
- indigence
- load
- need
- penury
- trial
- tribulation
- want
- bitter pill
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
How to use sordidness in a sentence
There was nothing to distract him from the sordidness of the bickering household in George Street.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGNor was the dainty neatness less remote from the cracked delf and huddled sordidness of his old home.
HYACINTHGEORGE A. BIRMINGHAMIt is an object not a little surprising to see mud and marble, state and sordidness, so mingled together.
EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINEARCULF ET AL.She saw simply a chance of a change, an escape from the monotony and sordidness of her present life.
THE CARROLL GIRLSMABEL QUILLER-COUCHThe sordidness of life, and the meanness of human nature, pressed around her.
POPPYCYNTHIA STOCKLEYThe saddest feature of the South African episode was its sordidness.
CECIL RHODESPRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILLIf the main point was violence or sordidness or baseness, he saw the characteristics which relieved and partially redeemed it.
THE GREAT GOD SUCCESSJOHN GRAHAM (DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS)Then the sordidness of the world lies far beneath you and your great democracy is truly come—the democracy of Nature.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE, VOLUME IBURTON J. HENDRICKThat life of sordidness and ignominy was left behind, the unclean spirit exorcised and cast forth!
LAFCADIO HEARNNINA H. KENNARDOn the futility of bookish learning, the ugliness and sordidness of town life, he is always discoursing.
THE VAGABOND IN LITERATUREARTHUR RICKETTWORDS RELATED TO SORDIDNESS
- abjection
- avarice
- baseness
- beastliness
- churlishness
- closeness
- contemptibleness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- debasement
- degeneracy
- degradation
- disrepute
- frugality
- greed
- ill temper
- infamy
- iniquity
- knavishness
- lowness
- malice
- malignity
- miserliness
- parsimony
- pettiness
- rapacity
- shamelessness
- smallmindedness
- sordidness
- stinginess
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- wickedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.