Antonyms for sordid
ˈsɔr dɪdsor·did

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1. sordid

   Avaricious and covetous refer especially to acquisition, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, and penurious to expenditure. The avaricious man has an eager craving for money, and ordinarily desires both to get and to keep, the covetous man to get something away from its possessor; tho one may be made avaricious by the pressure of great expenditures. Miserly and niggardly persons seek to gain by mean and petty savings; the miserly by stinting themselves, the niggardly by stinting others. Parsimonious and penurious may apply to one's outlay either for himself or for others; in the latter use, they are somewhat less harsh and reproachful terms than niggardly. The close man holds like a vise all that he gets. Near and nigh are provincial words of similar import. The rapacious have the robber instinct, and put it in practise in some form, as far as they dare. The avaricious and rapacious are ready to reach out for gain; the parsimonious, miserly, and niggardly prefer the safer and less adventurous way of avoiding expenditure. Greedy and stingy are used not only of money, but often of other things, as food, etc. The greedy child wishes to enjoy everything himself; the stingy child, to keep others from getting it.

   Antonyms:
   bountiful, free, generous, liberal, munificent, prodigal, wasteful

   Synonyms:
   avaricious, close, covetous, greedy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, stingy

   Preposition:
   The monarch was avaricious of power.

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1. sordid

   Antonyms:
   pure, liberal, generous, unselfish, honorable, uncovetous, openhanded, high-minded, profuse, lavish, prodigal, extravagant, overliberal

   Synonyms:
   dirty, filthy, foul, gross, vile, base, mean, avaricious, covetous, selfish, venal, niggardly, beggarly, closefisted, hidebound, greedy

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1. seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalidadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, clean, reputable

   Synonyms:
   indisposed, chintzy, poorly(p), ailing, squalid, peaked(p), scruffy, dirty, tinny, bum, flyblown, sleazy, crummy, unwell, cheesy, seedy, seamy, cheap, under the weather, punk, sickly

2. dirty, sordidadjective

   unethical or dishonest

   "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, clean, incorrupt, reputable

   Synonyms:
   soiled, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, lousy, dingy, seamy, filthy, squalid, cheating(a), unclean, flyblown, sleazy, pestiferous, marked-up, ill-gotten, seedy, foul, contaminating, dirty, muddy, muddied

3. flyblown, squalid, sordidadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, reputable, clean

   Synonyms:
   maggoty, seamy, sleazy, squalid, seedy, flyblown, dirty

4. sordidadjective

   meanly avaricious and mercenary

   "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, clean, reputable

   Synonyms:
   squalid, seamy, seedy, flyblown, dirty, sleazy

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1. sordidadjective

   Synonyms:
   low, degraded, abject, base

How to use sordid in a sentence?

1. William Wordsworth:

   The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon

2. Demosthenes:

   He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

3. Kim Davis:

   All I can say to them is if they have a sordid past like what I had, they too can receive the cleansing and renewing, and they can start a fresh life and they can be different, they don’t have to remain in their sin, there’s hope for tomorrow.

4. Ginger Rogers:

   My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

5. Luigi Pirandello:

   It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

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