Synonyms 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.

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

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

   Preposition:
   The monarch was avaricious of power.

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1. sordid

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

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

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, clean, reputable

2. dirty, sordidadjective

   unethical or dishonest

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, clean, incorrupt, reputable

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, reputable, clean

4. sordidadjective

   meanly avaricious and mercenary

   "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

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

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, incorrupt, clean, reputable

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1. sordidadjective

   Synonyms:
   mean, base, vile, low, degraded

2. sordidadjective

   Synonyms:
   covetous, avaricious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, close, illiberal, ungenerous, penurious, close-fisted

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1. sordidadjective

   Synonyms:
   low, degraded, abject, base

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1. List of paraphrases for "sordid":

   sleazy, squalid, dirty

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How to use sordid in a sentence?

1. Oscar Wilde:

   To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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. Demosthenes:

   He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

4. President Cristina Fernandez:

   There is not just astonishment and question marks, but also a history that is too long, too heavy, too difficult, and above all, very sordid.

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!