sordidness

Example Sentences

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But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

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

The Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Quaint, perhaps, because of that singular beauty of face and skin which seemed so ill-assorted with the sordidness of her surroundings.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness