sordidness
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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
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
But you made it so vivid to me—the other side of it—the sordidness, the poverty, the stairs, the bills; how I should grow plain, and begin to nag; how I should ruin Stowe's career.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
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