sordid

adjective
🔊/ˈsɔːdɪd/
🔊/ˈsɔːrdɪd/
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  1. not moral or honest卑鄙的;丑恶的;无耻的
    • It was a shock to discover the truth about his sordid past.他以往的丑行被发现时,人们感到震惊。🔊🔊
    • I didn't want to hear the sordid details of their relationship.我不想听他们之间的那些龌龊细节。🔊🔊
    • I don’t care about you and your sordid little affairs!我不在乎你和你那肮脏的小事!
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  2. very dirty and unpleasant肮脏的;污秽的 synonym squalid
    • people living in sordid conditions生活环境肮脏不堪的人
    • These were the urban poor, living in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities.这是些城市贫民,生活在维多利亚时代繁荣的城市中肮脏的后街和小巷里。
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (as a medical term in the sense ‘producing pus’): from French sordide or Latin sordidus, from sordere ‘be dirty’. The current senses date from the early 17th cent.