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sordidness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun noun sordidness of gambling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun uncountable The state or quality of being sordid .noun countable The result or product of being sordid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
Etymologies
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From sordid + -ness
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Examples
Even the food at meals had that awful dreary sordidness which is so repulsive to a young thing coming from abroad.
The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003
No room here for all the sordidness , meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence.
Chapter VIII 2010
We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty.
Monster of Marriage 2010
For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered.
Chapter 11: The Great Adventure 2010
* Addressing the dinner guests, Rabbi Jacob Rothschild said, “You gather to honor a man but you honor a city as well, a Southern city that has risen above the sordidness of hate and prejudice.”
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
Nowhere do we find more vividly portrayed the psychology of the persons that lived in that turbulent period embraced between the years 1912 and 1932 -- their mistakes and ignorance, their doubts and fears and misapprehensions, their ethical delusions, their violent passions, their inconceivable sordidness and selfishness.
Jack London: The Iron Heel 2010
We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty.
Monster of Marriage 2010
Francisco, with its restless shipping, belching factories, and thundering traffic, did not confuse her; instead, she comprehended swiftly the pitiful sordidness of Twenty Mile and the skin-lodged
THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010
All about me were still the same sordidness and wretchedness, and up above me was still the same paradise waiting to be gained; but the ladder whereby to climb was a different one.
What Life Means to Me 2010
Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.
What Life Means to Me 2010
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