sordid

  • (s) morally degraded
    • a seedy district
    • the seamy side of life
    • sleazy characters hanging around casinos
    • "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly
    • "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce
    • the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
    squalid, seamy, sleazy, seedy,
  • (s) unethical or dishonest
    • dirty police officers
    • a sordid political campaign
    dirty,
  • (s) foul and run-down and repulsive
    • a flyblown bar on the edge of town
    • a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
    • squalid living conditions
    • sordid shantytowns
    flyblown, squalid,
  • (s) meanly avaricious and mercenary
    • sordid avarice
    • sordid material interests

Synonyms

squalid seamy sleazy seedy dirty flyblown

Words of close approximity

sordidly sordidness