adj. 1. Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce). See Synonyms at base2. 2. a. Dirty or filthy: sordid clothing. b. Squalid or wretched: a sordid tenement. [Middle English sordide, festering, purulent, from Latin sordidus, dirty, from sordēre, to be dirty.] sordid·ly adv. sordid·ness n. |
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