How to Use sordid in a Sentence

sordid

adjective
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  • He shared the sordid details of his past.
  • Yet Collins says the fun didn’t come from the sordid finds.
    — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
  • Tracing the threads to the ghosts of SELA’s sordid past was easy.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The last straw came when Serra was getting in her car to head to work and slipped in one of the sordid mounds.
    — nola.com, 3 June 2019
  • That is true even on days when Donald Trump makes the process look sordid.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Guardian has a run down of the somewhat sordid machinations.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • And her role in this sordid case is about to take a dramatic turn.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Everything about the story, of course, is the stuff of the most sordid fiction.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Who among us isn’t transfixed by a sordid true crime tale?
    — Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
  • As the news cycles churned, the sordid details of Jackson’s death emerged.
    — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • The show also offered updates on the lives of the three people involved in one of the most sordid scandals of the '90s.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The sordid story of a South Bronx apartment building ruled by a gang of crazed, junkie punks.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Watch for my sordid senescent self to slink down a boulevard near you soon.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
  • In what passes for good news in the sordid mess, he is now confined to desk duty.
    — Paul Butler, Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Degas pulls aside the curtain on a sordid truth of that dazzling world.
    — Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2020
  • Showalter takes too long to get to the couple’s decline, whizzing by the more sordid details.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Just a sordid story and a lack of integrity all around.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Of course, all of this is in line with Giuliani’s sordid history.
    — Photo: Tom Williams/cq-Roll Call/getty Images., refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And despite the sordid events of last year, Smith said the city will continue to focus on the good aspects of the partnership.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Guided by the tastes of critics and academics, the museums and galleries fill up with the ugly, the sordid, the cruel, the bilious, the strange.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, as with anything on the internet, there’s a sordid element to watch out for.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The search for Alfredo will reveal a sordid past fraught with greed, blackmail and a pile of gambling debts.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • While the Fred and Gladys monikers have somewhat sad, not all royal nicknames come with such sordid stories.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The whole exchange is painful, from the bemused looks of those on-stage, to the audience rumbling as this whole sordid affair plays out.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In the end the truth proved to be merely sordid and mundane, a story beneath even Adamson’s standards.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • And that's really the story of this whole sordid affair.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • This is further evidence that this whole sordid saga was never about the truth.
    — Orrin Hatch, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
  • In the sordid world of professional thieves, con artists, and forgers, the answers are never clear.
    — Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • One kind is sordid, exploitative, and supported by shady money and even shadier characters.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024

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