Friday, March 10, 2017

SORDID

WORD: SORDID

MEANING:
1. Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce). See Synonyms at base2.
2.
a. Dirty or filthy: sordid clothing.
b. Squalid or wretched: a sordid tenement.
3. disgusting, nasty

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. If you can look through its seemingly sincere front, you’ll find it hides a sordid heart, one that can’t make you empathise but only cringe. 

PRONOUNCE:
sor·did - सॉर्डड / सोर्डिड

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