All 3 Uses of
sordid
in
1984, by Orwell
- And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?
p. 3.9sordid = disgusting
- Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
p. 84.7
- Above all he remembered his continuous hunger, and the fierce sordid battles at mealtimes.
p. 162.1 *sordid = morally degrading or disgusting
Definition:
immoral, dishonest, or disgusting