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The meaning of SORDID is marked by baseness or grossness : vile. How to use sordid in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sordid.
adjective. uk / ˈsɔː.dɪd / us / ˈsɔːr.dɪd / sordid adjective (DIRTY) Add to word list. dirty and unpleasant: There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city's poorer areas. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Dirty & untidy. all over the place idiom. Augean. besmeared. bespattered. bloodied.
If you describe someone's behaviour as sordid, you mean that it is immoral or dishonest.
Something that is filthy or run down such as a neighborhood or someone's living conditions can be called sordid, but it is usually used figuratively to mean immoral or dishonest. If you want to hear the sordid details of someone's actions, it's because they were extremely dishonest or immoral and also because they were supposed to be kept a secret.
morally wrong and shocking: He told me he'd had an affair but he spared me the sordid details. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of sordid from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) sordid | Intermediate English. adjective. us / ˈsɔrd·əd / sordid adjective (MORALLY BAD)
Sordid definition: morally ignoble or base; vile. See examples of SORDID used in a sentence.
adj. 1. dirty, foul, or squalid. 2. degraded; vile; base: a sordid affair. 3. selfish and grasping: sordid avarice. [C16: from Latin sordidus, from sordēre to be dirty] ˈsordidly adv. ˈsordidness n.
Definition of sordid adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
SORDID definition: unpleasant, dirty, or immoral: . Learn more.
sordid meaning, definition, what is sordid: involving immoral or dishonest behaviour...: Learn more.
