sordidness

Example Sentences

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His palatial property overlooks the old wells where he’d made his fortune, but by the end of the story, Marlowe sees figurative as well as literal sordidness among its remnants.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

Preferences continue if the sordidness is obscured by a semantic fog.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

That earth-born sordidness which marked all slaves as common chattels, was being burnt out of our national life, as our basest national sin.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.