0 the quality of being dirty and unpleasant:
They looked up and down the river, with its amazing mixture of beauty and almost incredible sordidness.
"We must have at least one good servant, or the daily sordidness would make you miserable," he said.
The plans were a response to the dank, crowded sordidness of the Victorian slum.
Legalization would take much of the sordidness out of the business.
the sordidness and corruption of party politics
Both in the reminiscences of the old residents and in the official discourse, gundilong was widely described in terms of its impoverishment, sordidness and maleficence.
Who has not paused then to consider the sordidness of human affairs and the vanity of human wishes?
By reflecting so much the sordidness of life, the broadcast is helping to mould public opinion; there is no question about that.
