SORDID

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

2.
a.

Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton.

3.
a.

Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. Sir J. Denham.


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