Usually means: Morally degraded, dirty, and squalid.
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  1. sordid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sordid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sordid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sordid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sordid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sordid, sordid: Wordnik
  7. sordid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sordid: Wiktionary
  9. sordid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sordid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sordid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sordid: Dictionary.com
  13. sordid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sordid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sordid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sordid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sordid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sordid: Rhymezone
  19. sordid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sordid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sordid: Free Dictionary
  22. sordid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sordid: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sordid: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sordid: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
adjective:  Dirty or squalid.
adjective:  Morally degrading.
adjective:  Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
adjective:  Of a dull colour.

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    dark gray,     rusty red



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