Exempel på sordid

• The pernicious transformation of sordid stories into epics for profit cannot really be restrained in any other way.

• They are sordid, and their managements tend to be feudal.

• We have had a lot of words, "sordid", "cheat", "fraudulent", "chicanery", "gerrymander", "sham", "tricksters", and "nincompoop".

• The sordid saga of this wrangle with the parents, the company's devious efforts to discharge its moral responsibilities on the cheap, continues.

• I do not intend to go fully into the many sordid incidents about which we read almost daily in the newspapers.

• There could rarely have been a more classic example of sordid party political manoeuvre without the slightest regard for the national interest.

• A sordid matter has been much talked about in the past three or four years.

• The sad, sordid history of their export shows that they cannot be transported safely but only at great risk of damage.

• We shall regard it with no more surprise and no greater edification than we regard the ordinary and more sordid incidents of everyday life.

• I am far more prone to turn my mind to the brighter future than to the sordid past.

• In talking about an artistic subject it is rather sordid to have to keep harping on finance.

• I have not touched the issue at any angle except having seen the rather sordid side of it during my period of office.

• Our racing will become a very small, sordid and rather unworkable thing unless something is done to help the racecourses.

• When we look at the process by which this constitution was made, we see that many of the dealings were sordid.

• I saw the most horrendous and sordid injuries that had been inflicted on people.