sordid
adjective/ˈsɔːdɪd/
/ˈsɔːrdɪd/
- not moral or honest
- It was a shock to discover the truth about his sordid past.
- I didn't want to hear the sordid details of their relationship.
- I don’t care about you and your sordid little affairs!
- very dirty and unpleasant synonym squalid
- people living in sordid conditions
- These were the urban poor, living in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a medical term in the sense ‘producing pus’): from French sordide or Latin sordidus, from sordere ‘be dirty’. The current senses date from the early 17th cent.
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