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Definitions of sordid

1. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. 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" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. 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" Wordnet Dictionary DB

4. meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

5. Filthy; foul; dirty. Newage Dictionary DB

6. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. Newage Dictionary DB

7. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. Newage Dictionary DB

8. Sordidness. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

9. Mean; vile; base; without noble ideals; greedy of gain; miserly. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

10. Sordidly. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

11. See Sordes. Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today. By William R. Warner. Published 1898.

12. Vile: mean: meanly avaricious. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

13. Vile; mean; niggardly. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

14. Meanly avaricious; mercenary; base. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

15. Filthy; foul; vile; base; niggardly; meanly avaricious. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

16. Mean; base; vile; meanly avaricious; very niggardly. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

17. sor'did, adj. dirty, squalid: of a dull colour: morally foul, vile: mean: meanly avaricious.--n. SOR'DES, filth, foul accretions on the teeth in low forms of fever.--adv. SOR'DIDLY.--ns. SOR'DIDNESS, state of being sordid; SOR'DOR, filth, dregs. [Fr. sordide--L. sordidus--sord[=e]re, to be dirty.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

18. Mean, niggardly; ignoble, base; (Bot., Zool., of colours) impure, muddy, as s. blue; (archaic) dirty, squalid. Hence sordidly adv., sordidness n. [French] Concise Oxford Dictionary