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sordid
Synonyms and Antonyms of sordid
- he managed to rise above the sordid streets upon which he grew up
contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted
insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed
chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy
raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, skanky [slang], sleazy, squalid
collied [chiefly British dialect], crocked [dialect], fuliginous, sooty
- a sordid affair involving bribery and corruption in high places
base, contemptible, currish, despicable, detestable, dirty, dishonorable, execrable, ignoble, ignominious, low, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, paltry, snide, vile, wretched
Synonym Discussion of sordid
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- mean and petty satire
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- an ignoble scramble after material possessions
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- abject poverty
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- a sordid story of murder and revenge
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