Associations to the word «Sordid»

Wiktionary

SORDID, adjective. Dirty or squalid.
SORDID, adjective. Morally degrading.
SORDID, adjective. Grasping.

Dictionary definition

SORDID, adjective. Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal".
SORDID, adjective. Unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign".
SORDID, adjective. Foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns".
SORDID, adjective. Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests".

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery