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Meaning of sordid

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sordid
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy},
             {sordid}, {squalid}]
      2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
         political campaign" [syn: {dirty}, {sordid}]
      3: 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" [syn: {flyblown}, {squalid}, {sordid}]
      4: meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid
         material interests"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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