Dictionary Definition
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, squalid]
2 unethical or dishonest; "dirty police
officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: dirty]
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]
4 meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid
avarice"; "sordid material interests"
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Translations
dirty or squalid
- Hungarian: piszkos, szennyes
morally degrading
- Hungarian: hitvány, közönséges
grasping
- Hungarian: anyagias, kapzsi, zsugori
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a hog for, abased, abominable, acquisitive, all-devouring,
arrant, atrocious, avaricious, avid, awful, base, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beneath contempt,
black, blameworthy, blowsy, blowzy, bottomless, brutal, careless, chintzy, contemptible, corrupt, coveting, covetous, debased, defiled, degraded, deplorable, derogatory, despicable, deteriorated, detestable, devouring, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, discreditable, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dowdy, down-and-out, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, esurient, execrable, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, grievous, gross, grubby, grudging, hateful, heinous, hoggish, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, impoverished, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, inglorious, insanitary, insatiable, insatiate, lamentable, limitless, loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, mean, mercenary, messy, mingy, miserable, miserly, money-hungry,
money-mad, monstrous,
mucky, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, niggard, niggardly, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, omnivorous, outrageous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penurious, piggish, pinchpenny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, polluted, poor, poverty-stricken, putrid, quenchless, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, rank, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous, schlock, scraggly, scurvy, seamy, seedy, selfish, servile, shabby, shady, shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slakeless, slattern, slatternly, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, sodden, squalid, stingy, swinish, tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, tumbledown, unappeasable, unappeased, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unpraiseworthy, unquenchable, unrespectable, unsanitary, unsated, unsatisfied, unsavory, unsightly, unslakeable, unslaked, untidy, venal, vile, villainous, voracious, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched