Sordid

Definition: Sordid

Sordid

Adjective

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".

2. Unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign".

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".

4. Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sordid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Sordid \Sor"did\, adjective. [Latin expression sordidus, from sordere to be filthy or dirty; probably akin to English swart: compare to the French expression sordide. See Swart,]. (references)

Synonyms: Sordid

Greed

Greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Sordid

Romanian (blowsy, grovelling, sordid, sordidly, squalid).

Such a sordid state of affairs (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Give us one more sad sordid story (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Assorted Sordid Stories (reference)

• Bury Him Deeper: Love, Passion and Other Sordid Affairs (reference)

• Kashmir suffers : a sordid tale told by western and Indian journalists (reference)

• No Chance: The Sordid Story of Vince McMahon Jr. and the WWF (reference)

• Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sordid Lives (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Found on Sordid Streets (reference)

• Sordid Lives [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, squalid, waste), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, stain, tarnish), ‏خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, pooch, reptile, ruffian, scruffy, servile, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, small change, vile, villainous), ‏شحيح (mean, mingy, miserly, penury, piker, scant, scarce, stingy), ‏دنيء (dirty, shabby, vile, villainous), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), мизерен (abject, flea-bitten, mangy, miserable, poverty stricken, ratty, squalid, wretched), алчен (accumulative, acquisitive, avid, covetous, eager, gloating, grasping, having, miserly, moneygrubbing, rapacious). (various references)

Chinese 

污穢 (filthy, nasty). (various references)

Czech

podlý (base, contemptible, currish, ignoble, lowdown, mean, shabby, ugly, villainous, wicked), nuzný (badly off, destitute, hand to mouth, indigent, meagre, needy, penurious), nízký (base, flat, ignoble, impure, low, short, squalid, tawdry, villainous), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous), bídný (abject, bad, eagre, low down, mean, miserable, pitiful, scurvy, squalid, wretched), špinavý (black, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, squalid, unclean). (various references)

Farsi 

هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious), چرک (Dingy, Dirt, Dirty, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Pus, Puss, Slag, Squawk), کثیف (Amiss, Dirty, Draggy, Grimy, Impure, Lousy, Messy, Mussy, Nasty, Sloppy, Squawk), خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Stingy, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous), شلخته (Blowzy, Slipshod, Sloppy, Slovenly), دون (Low, Lowly, Poor, Ribald, Servile, Shabby, Small). (various references)

French

sordide. (various references)

German

schmutzig (dingily, dingy, dirty, disgusting, filthily, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, grimy, lewd, messy, mucky, muddy, nastily, smuttily, smutty, soiled, sordidly, splotchy, squalid, turbid, unclean, unwholesome), schäbig (cheap, dingily, disreputable, dowdy, mangy, mean, measly, moldy, paltry, pokily, poky, poor, raggedly, scabby, seedily, seedy, shabbily, shabby, shoddily, shoddy, stingy, tackily, tacks, tacky, threadbare, tinny). (various references)

Greek 

ρυπαρόσ (grimy, grubby, nasty, slobbery, smutty, squalid), πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, vile, vulgar), φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penurious, skinflint, stingy, ungenerous), ζαμερπήσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך (dirty, dungy, foul, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, smutty, soiled, unclean), מושחת (corrupt, corruptible, debauchee, naughty, perverse, punk, rotten, vicious), מטו� ף (dungy, filthy, grubby, mucky, nasty, slimy, slob, sloppy, soiled, squalid), שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, scamp, shabby, vile), � בז�" (cad, contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, nasty, ornery, scamp, shameful, villain, worm, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

zsugori (avaricious, churlish, costive, curmudgeon, fisty, mingy, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, skinflint, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, to flay a flint), piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, spotty, unclean, untidy), mocskos (begrimed, drossy, filthy, foulmouthed, grimy, messy, ribald, scurrilous, scuzzy, sleazo, sleazy, snuffy, spotty, squalid, stinky). (various references)

Italian

sordido (squalid, stingy), meschino (base, beggarly, currish, mean, measly, miserable, narrow, paltry, petty, poor, scanty, shabby, small minded, sorry, wretched), gretto (insular, mean, narrow, narrow minded). (various references)

Manx

trullee (corrupt, corrupt as practice, dirty, dirty in speech, infectious), sondagh (avaricious, close-fisted, covetous, greedy, miser, selfish), sollagh (dirty, filthy, grimy, grotty, grubby, unclean). (various references)

Pig Latin

ordidsay.(various references)

Portuguese

sórdido (foul, mean, mucky, nasty, piggish, squalid, swinish), vil (base, caitiff, carrion, despicable, dirty, ignoble, lily-livered, lousy, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, nefarious, paltry, picayune, rascally, reptile, rotten, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, slavish, sneaking, ugly, vile, villainous), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, squalid, wretch, wretched), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, stingy, unhandsome), ignóbil (dastardly, mean), baixo (base, bass, bass voice, basso, caitiff, common, dumpy, dwarfish, hereinafter, hollow, ignoble, lily-livered, low, low-down, lowered, mean, mediocre, menial, nether, obsequious, pygmean, raffish, rascally, reptile, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, shallow, short, slavish, small, superficial, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

sordid (blowsy, grovelling, sordidly, squalid), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, stingy, trivial), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordidly, vile). (various references)

Russian 

грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, squalid, unclean, vicious). (various references)

Scottish

mosach (filthy, mean, nasty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, squalid, unclean), pogan (filthy), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, uncongenial, unlovely, vile). (various references)

Spanish

sórdido (backstairs, seamy, seedy, sleazy, slummy). (various references)

Swedish

smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, squalid, unclean), simpel (base, common, ignoble, low, menial, plain, plebeian, simple, straightforward, vulgar). (various references)

Thai

เลวทราม (foul, shoddy, squalid), สกปรก (cacky, dirty, foul, grubby, grungy, mucky, sleazy, squalid). (various references)

Turkish

sefil (abject, beggarly, dead end, destitute, down and out, down at heels, hangdog, miserable, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), para canlısı (avaricious), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy), çıkarcı (calculating, expedient, interested, mercenary, number one, politic, profiteer, self-seeker, self-seeking, utilitarian). (various references)

Ukrainian

корисливий (accumulative, appropriate, avaricious, gainful, interested, mammonish, mercenary, money-grubbing, moneymaking, self-interested, self-seeking), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), мерзенний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, atrocious, caitiff, ghoulish, hangdog, hateful, heinous, nasty, nefandous, nefarious, niddering, odious, villainous, wretched), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sozzly, unclean). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhớp nhúa hèn hạ, bẩn thỉu (crummy, dirtily, dirty, filthy, grubby, messy, miry, mucky, villainous), đê tiện tham lam. (various references)

Welsh

bawaidd (dirty, mean, vile). (various references)

ater, atriorum, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, sordidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sordid": sordidly, sordidness, sordidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sordid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doradid, Dordi, isodrin, scordi, scordid, sodded, soldid, sorbid, sorddi, sorded, sorid, sorrid, sortid, sorvid, ssordid, surid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: droids.

-1 letter: didos, droid.

-2 letters: dido, dors, odds, rids, rods, sord, sori.

-3 letters: did, dis, dor, dos, ids, odd, ods, ors, rid, rod, sir, sod, sri.

-4 letters: do, id, is, od, or, os, si, so.

+1 letter: discord.

+2 letters: androids, dermoids, discords, disorder, disrobed, dropsied, hydroids, indorsed, roadside, shoddier, sordidly.

+3 letters: broadside, cardioids, dihedrons, disaccord, discorded, disgorged, disorders, disported, disproved, disrooted, distorted, dodgeries, middorsal, misworded, ordinands, periodids, resodding, roadsides, sideboard, soldiered.

+4 letters: broadsided, broadsides, caddisworm, considered, dedicators, demiworlds, deodorizes, diadromous, dichondras, disaccords, discolored, discordant, discording, discoursed, discovered, discrowned, disendower, disfavored, disfrocked, dishonored, disordered, disorderly, dispersoid, driftwoods, eiderdowns, endodermis, forbidders, hardihoods, hydroxides, misordered, modernised, radiosonde, redisposed, sideboards, sobersided, sordidness.