sordidness

Example Sentences

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Fennell continues to have a gift for exposing the sordidness of money and power.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

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

But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

And yet, how dare I claim to be free from sordidness, when all my thoughts and hopes and daily life are now bent on winning money?

From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester