sordid
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The best evidence of that sordid policy comes from Kissinger’s own National Security Council files, including near-verbatim transcripts of his face-to-face negotiations with communist leaders.
From Salon
In “Gotham at War,” Mr. Wallace takes us on a fascinating excursion into both the now lost yet somehow familiar human superstructure, and the sometimes sordid underbelly, of the city we know today.
Yet the boy’s yearning for family outweighs his sordid circumstances.
Roberts expressed his frustration at the time, writing that it “is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.”
From Los Angeles Times
The president seemed eager to move on, calling the Epstein case "sordid, but it's boring" while also blaming Democrats for continuing to make it an issue.
From BBC
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