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    sordid example sentences

    sordid


    1. I wanted to go home, I craved a cigarette, but I could have neither, and the indignity of my sordid life made me wish for the ultimate release


    2. to bury the sordid remains of the beast


    3. remembered now as sordid history in words offered to those


    4. He should be able to pass on the benefit of his experience, but it seems so sordid


    5. No doubt the press will break the details about the tragic death of a teenage clubber before too long, and Carol will find out about more of the sordid details soon enough


    6. It sounded horribly sordid, like something from one of the more sensationalist soap operas to Andy’s ears as he stammered out his story


    7. Me – the other woman? Me - involved in a sordid, hole-in-the-corner affair? But it’s not like that … For the millionth time I try to justify the unjustifiable; to make sense of the illogical; to deny the undeniable


    8. needn’t have wasted our time listening to such a sordid story


    9. He’d done it not through her connections, but from the sordid testimony of a whoring slave


    10. I was terrified and if it were not for Darniil who came to my rescue, they might very well have succeeded with their sordid plan

    11. With the judges that were to determine the preference, this difference was perfectly decisive; and thus, for the gratification of the most childish, the meanest, and the most sordid of all vanities they gradually bartered their whole power and authority


    12. sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over


    13. to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness


    14. families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid (vile) gain


    15. Did they think she was lying about the house? Obviously they thought there was something sordid to hide


    16. “I want to thank you for bringing this sordid story of woe up, Roger


    17. I wanted to blurt out my sad and pathetic life story to these strangers, but what would that help? They would get a juicy story to tell their friends and families and I would still have to face the same sordid hurt and pain


    18. Once I had relived the sordid story, the realisation that my life was in ruins hit me, and I was wrought with sadness


    19. Evil has its own inestimable manner of penetrating the hearts and minds of individuals who, although not evil themselves, unwittingly serve as conduits for a variety of sordid practices and assorted mischief


    20. Sordid is as sordid does, isn’t that what they say?”

    21. The potted palms at the patio’s edge stood motionless in the still of the late-night air as they hashed over the astonishing events of the day, and Beth related the whole sordid tale of her problems with the FBI


    22. He apologized to Hilderich saying that it was not an appropriate time for such a discussion, but promised him that he would be more than happy to introduce her to Hilderich when they both got back and had left this sordid affair behind them


    23. They had simply been unlucky and with a bitter smile to himself, Ethan thought that this whole sordid affair reeked of bad luck


    24. I was almost about to abandon the whole sordid business when I thought of George’s smirking face and realized that he would be the next Khan


    25. I quietly let him out of the front door thinking I'd got aware with my sordid liaison but out of the corner of my eye I saw my mum


    26. I don't want him thinking the football is some kind of cover-up for sordid sex sessions in the showers


    27. “He was ahead of me there, but then I was upset about my son’s involvement in the sordid business, and too distracted to question George’s version of the events


    28. Chapter 16 This is the sordid story of the maidservant Hagar, Abram, and Sarai,


    29. However, Minnie had allowed me to leave that sordid sexual


    30. Someone who was more base, more sordid than he’d ever

    31. aspirations, the sordid sexual fantasies, the doubt, the hate, the


    32. I pulled the photographs from his hand and discovered who was responsible for this sordid mess


    33. Charly shook her head as Trask finished the sordid tale


    34. This sordid affair left a bad taste in my mouth


    35. Bill: Perhaps I owe Michael a very belated apology for doubting his role in this sordid affair and then again maybe I don't owe Michael an apology


    36. No sordid details, though! I'm not that soft in the head


    37. Tina had recorded every sordid detail of their affair in it


    38. A few days of headlines and on to the next sordid scandal, leaving a trail of ruined lives


    39. Even books written by gays conform either to the stereotypical queer whose sole aim in life is to have as many graphically-described, sordid sexual encounters as possible, usually in a drug-crazed haze, or else they’re like Hollinghurst’s hedonistic packs of well-heeled wankers


    40. sordid behaviour before, even after twenty years on the police force

    41. That event determined the mobilization of all the accumulated hate, hurt, malice, prejudice, jealousy, and revenge of a lifetime, and he made up his mind to get even with he knew not whom; but he crystallized all the evil of his nature upon the one innocent person in all the sordid drama of his unfortunate life just because Jesus happened to be the chief actor in the episode which marked his passing from the progressive kingdom of light into that self-chosen domain of darkness


    42. 13 When the sordid and sinful business was all over, this renegade mortal, who thought lightly of selling his friend for thirty pieces of silver to satisfy his long-nursed craving for revenge, rushed out and committed the final act in the drama of fleeing from the realities of mortal existence -- suicide


    43. ‘Are rapes and murder the only issues on trial in this singular case? Was not Suresh the violator as well as a victim at the same time? What about those who blackened their faces in this sordid drama of human depravity? Are they any innocent? Well, it was as if the parents insensibly combined to collectively jeopardize their son’s life


    44. That’s the only saving grace of my sordid life


    45. Yet, the redeeming feature of that sordid episode was that the fathers of the victims felt emboldened to defy the Dirty Dozen at the Tihar


    46. 17 Jesus replied: "Thomas, Thomas, how long before you will acquire the ability to listen with the ear of the spirit? How long will it be before you discern that this kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, and that my Father is also a spiritual being? Do you not understand that I am teaching you as spiritual children in the spirit family of heaven, of which the fatherhead is an infinite and eternal spirit? Will you not allow me to use the earth family as an illustration of divine relationships without so literally applying my teaching to material affairs? In your minds cannot you separate the spiritual realities of the kingdom from the material, social, economic, and political problems of the age? When I speak the language of the spirit, why do you insist on translating my meaning into the language of the flesh just because I presume to employ commonplace and literal relationships for purposes of illustration? My children, I implore that you cease to apply the teaching of the kingdom of the spirit to the sordid affairs of slavery, poverty, houses, and lands, and to the material problems of human equity and justice


    47. But the Master so managed the situation that the whole plot fell to pieces of its own sordid weight


    48. 5 The Jewish leaders began the sordid business of supposedly getting rid of Jesus by offering bribes to the traitorous Judas, and now, when confronted with this embarrassing situation, instead of thinking of punishing the guards who deserted their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the Roman soldiers


    49. Be patient! be not tempted to indulge in a lawless plunge into cheap and sordid adventure


    50. Though sordid minds with impious touch presume













































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    Synonyms for "sordid"

    sordid flyblown squalid dirty shoddy seamy seedy sleazy filthy foul unclean soiled degraded depraved low base amoral abject miserly niggardly stingy avaricious parsimonious mercenary tight miserable mean

    "sordid" definitions

    morally degraded


    unethical or dishonest


    foul and run-down and repulsive


    meanly avaricious and mercenary