sordidness

Example Sentences

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But on “Housewives”? This level of sordidness is not what viewers are here for.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 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

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

It was probably the contrast between them and the recent comfort he had enjoyed that forced home the sordidness of the present life.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills