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English
Etymology
From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest)
- Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
- Dirty or squalid.
- Morally degrading.
1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
- 1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number:
- I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
- 2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
- It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.
- Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
- Of a dull colour.
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Translations
distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible
dirty or squalid
- Bulgarian: мръсен (bg) (mrǎsen)
- Catalan: sòrdid
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不潔/不洁 (bùjié), 污穢/汙穢/污秽/污秽, 污秽 (zh) (wūhuì)
- Czech: odporný (cs), špinavý (cs), zaplivaný
- Dutch: smerig (nl)
- Finnish: likainen (fi), kurja (fi), rähjäinen (fi), saastainen (fi)
- French: saleté (fr)
- German: dreckig (de), schäbig (de), schmutzig (de)
- Hungarian: piszkos (hu), szennyes (hu)
- Irish: salach
- Latin: sordidus
- Macedonian: ва́лкан (válkan), гна́сен (gnásen)
- Maori: poke (mi)
- Plautdietsch: schmutzich
- Russian: гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj)
- Spanish: sórdido (es)
- Ukrainian: брудний (uk) m (brudnyj)
- Welsh: bawaidd
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Estonian
Noun
sordid
- nominative plural of sort
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Adjective
sordid m or n (feminine singular sordidă, masculine plural sordizi, feminine and neuter plural sordide)
- sordid
Declension