Definitions
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- adjective Not
sordid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hailed by Churchill as the "most unsordid act in history" – a phrase calculated to nourish alliances – Lend-Lease in fact exacted from the British draconian sacrifices.
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The Marshall Plan, said England's war leader from his retirement, was "the most unsordid act in history."
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Not a dream-stopper, a dream-explainer, an exploiter of dreams for the crass practical ends of health and happiness, but an unsordid collector of dreams for themselves alone.
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Not a dream-stopper, a dream-explainer, an exploiter of dreams for the crass practical ends of health and happiness, but an unsordid collector of dreams for themselves alone.
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Indeed, while Truman led this country in what Churchill called the "most unsordid act in history," the stories about Iraqi reconstruction keep getting more sordid.
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Winston Churchill called it, "The most unsordid act in history."
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This week is the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, what Winston Churchill described as the most unsordid act in all history.
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But in Claude we have the hint, however crude, of a relation as unsordid as this, but positive and direct, -- the soul of the landscape speaking at once to the soul of man, -- showing itself cognate, already friendly, and needing only to throw off the husk of opposition.
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What gave the subject an intense tenderness of unsordid interest was that it meant for the pair -- what so many thousands of paroled heroes and the women they loved and who loved them were hourly finding out
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It is altogether unsordid; itself is its only price.
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