sordidness
Example Sentences
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But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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 Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Indeed, there looked between them a strange similitude, twin brethren damned to the like sordidness, the like rapacity.”
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith
