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

Sordidness. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being sordid.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris.

A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.

Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason.

Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

he condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison.

Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. Daniel.

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [Obs.] "Let such pelters prate." Gascoigne.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.