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
The dining room was a festive place, but the kitchen was almost Dickensian in its sordidness and gloom.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Don't think of this as a bit of sordidness creeping in.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
