sordidness
Example Sentences
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His palatial property overlooks the old wells where he’d made his fortune, but by the end of the story, Marlowe sees figurative as well as literal sordidness among its remnants.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
But you can have a good story without easy sordidness.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022
Preferences continue if the sordidness is obscured by a semantic fog.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022
He had, it seems, an almost gleeful appreciation of shabbiness, sordidness, decay, misshapenness, and irregularity—falling houses, untended gardens, the mess and slime on the Thames down toward Gravesend.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2016
We freeze our hearts by selfishness, and stifle them by sordidness.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
