1. sordid - Adjective
2. sordid - Adjective Satellite
Filthy; foul; dirty.
Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEvery age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. Rutherford B. Hayes
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. Oscar Wilde
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it. John Adams
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. John A. Macdonald
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. Oscar Wilde
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. Publilius Syrus