SORDID

1. [s] meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

2. [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"

3. [s] unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

4. [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

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1. [a] acquisitive

2. [a] dirty

3. [a] soiled

4. [a] unclean

5. [a] corrupt

6. [a] disreputable