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  • adjective Not sordid.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sordid

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Examples

  • 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.

    Losing Hope, Glory and Assets 2008

  • The Marshall Plan, said England's war leader from his retirement, was "the most unsordid act in history."

    The Plan And The Man 2008

  • 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.

    Mind Hacks: Johnny panic and the bible of dreams 2006

  • 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.

    Mind Hacks: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • 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.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

  • Winston Churchill called it, "The most unsordid act in history."

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003 2003

  • This week is the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, what Winston Churchill described as the most unsordid act in all history.

    President At West Point Graduation ITY National Archives 1997

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • 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

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • It is altogether unsordid; itself is its only price.

    Character Samuel Smiles 1858

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