Examples of sordid

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The ability to; 'hire a room by the hour'(l.16) makes the world outside seem increasingly sordid and dark.
When once sordid interest seizes the heart, it freezes up the source of every warm and liberal feeling.
The "drudgery and sordid everlasting cares" of a meagre household and their courtship are shadowed by concerns that they must "learn to be economical".
The actual life of such is, for the most part, one of sordid toil and a grim hand-to-hand fight with poverty and hunger.
The hypocritical contrast between this elegant exterior and the sordid inner man is presented in a pedestrian and predictable manner.
I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs.
A sordid history of political marginalisation of the peasantry makes freehold a superior alternative to more secure state leasehold.
In the end, the eldest sister ghost tells a story, a sordid and tragic history in which marital ambition has a prominent part.
The lecture revolves around the defence of existentialism against four major criticisms - that it is sordid, amoral, quietistic, and that it precludes the possibility of solidarity.
Of course then we may find that there is no real conflict at all and that the objective aims of the disputants are rather sordid and mercenary.
Such arrangements are not conducive to rational problem-solving; solutions turn not on principle and reasoned argument, but on compromises, accommodation and, on occasion, rather sordid" wheeling and dealing".
When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?
We have dashed our true spiritual selves to the ground, 'a sordid boon', in the name of materialistic pursuits and at the price of our spiritual advancement.
Our group supports these people without papers in their fight against a government whose immigration policy has been reduced to a low-grade policing operation for sordid political ends.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
My party considers this sordid.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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