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单词 sordid
释义
sordid
adjective
uk
/ˈsɔː.dɪd/us
/ˈsɔːr.dɪd/

sordidadjective(DIRTY)

dirtyandunpleasant:
肮脏的，邋遢的
There arelotsof really sordidapartmentsin the city'spoorerareas.该市较贫困的地区有很多极其肮脏的公寓。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
  • -stained
  • all over the placeidiom
  • Augean
  • bedraggled
  • besmeared
  • bespattered
  • bloodied
  • insalubrious
  • insanitary
  • look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
  • mangy
  • manky
  • messily
  • messy
  • mucky
  • soiled
  • sordidly
  • sordidness
  • squalid
  • straggly
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sordidadjective(IMMORAL)

morallywrongandshocking:
不道德的，不诚实的，卑鄙的
He told me he'd had anaffairbut hesparedme the sordiddetails.他告诉我他有了婚外恋，但没有告诉我其中龌龊的细节。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • disgrace
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • no goodidiom
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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Related words

sordidly
sordidness
(Definition ofsordidfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sordid| American Dictionary

sordid
adjective
us
/ˈsɔrd·əd/

sordidadjective(MORALLY BAD)

morallyugly, so that beinginvolvedmakes youfeeldirty:
a sordidstory
sordiddetails

sordidadjective(DIRTY)

dirtyand inbadcondition:
The sordidconditionof many of thecityschoolbuildingswasshocking.
(Definition ofsordidfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsordid

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The pernicious transformation ofsordidstories into epics for profit cannot really be restrained in any other way.
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They aresordid, and their managements tend to be feudal.
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We have had a lot of words, "sordid", "cheat", "fraudulent", "chicanery", "gerrymander", "sham", "tricksters", and "nincompoop".
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Thesordidsaga of this wrangle with the parents, the company's devious efforts to discharge its moral responsibilities on the cheap, continues.
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I do not intend to go fully into the manysordidincidents about which we read almost daily in the newspapers.
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There could rarely have been a more classic example ofsordidparty political manoeuvre without the slightest regard for the national interest.
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Asordidmatter has been much talked about in the past three or four years.
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The sad,sordidhistory of their export shows that they cannot be transported safely but only at great risk of damage.
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We shall regard it with no more surprise and no greater edification than we regard the ordinary and moresordidincidents of everyday life.
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I am far more prone to turn my mind to the brighter future than to thesordidpast.
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In talking about an artistic subject it is rathersordidto have to keep harping on finance.
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I have not touched the issue at any angle except having seen the rathersordidside of it during my period of office.
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Our racing will become a very small,sordidand rather unworkable thing unless something is done to help the racecourses.
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When we look at the process by which this constitution was made, we see that many of the dealings weresordid.
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I saw the most horrendous andsordidinjuries that had been inflicted on people.
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