sordid

Example Sentences

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For a growing number of online sleuths, there is a booming business in peddling outlandish answers to those and other sordid questions raised by the trove of newly released files.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, the locals continued to pursue their delightfully sordid lifestyles with a lot more personal privacy than would seem likely in smalltown America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

But sordid details emerged during the legal cases, revealing a darker side.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

Chu has spent a decade trying to bring accountability to immigration detention and knows this sordid industry better than any.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.

From "1984" by George Orwell