FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Question
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What does “sordid” mean?
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dirty
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clean
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messy
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pure
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -dirty and unpleasant: There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city’s poorer areas.
Detailed explanation-2: -disreputable, nasty, shameful, sleazy, squalid, vile, abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dowdy, filthy, foul.
Detailed explanation-3: -: marked by baseness or grossness : vile. sordid motives. : dirty, filthy. : wretched, squalid.
Detailed explanation-4: -If you describe someone’s behaviour as sordid, you mean that it is immoral or dishonest.
Detailed explanation-5: -: not clean or pure. dirty clothes. dirty fingernails. : likely to befoul or defile with a soiling substance (such as mud, dust, or grime) dirty jobs.
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