sordid

• She made it sound really sordid which is not how I remember it but then I was only a schoolboy myself at the time. —  Word Magazine - Comments
• Dick was long ago to drift into ugly, sordid, and irreparable misery. —  The Altar Fire
• Her father was sordid, her mother weak; persons of great wealth and greater selfishness. —  Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.
• "What is there in this world that is not sordid -- to the young in one sense, and to the old in another?" —  Erema — My Father's Sin
• "It isn't sordid, and -- what brought you home at this hour, anyhow?" she demanded. —  The Iron Trail

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