sordidness

Example Sentences

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Fennell continues to have a gift for exposing the sordidness of money and power.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

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

He had, it seems, an almost gleeful appreciation of shabbiness, sordidness, decay, misshapenness, and irregularity—falling houses, untended gardens, the mess and slime on the Thames down toward Gravesend.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2016

But when youth had fled there ceased to be romance, and only sordidness was forthcoming. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.