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SORDIDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Synonyms:
baseness; contemptibility; despicability; despicableness; sordidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sordidness" is a kind of...):
unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)
Derivation:
sordid (meanly avaricious and mercenary)
sordid (unethical or dishonest)
sordid (morally degraded)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sordid dirtiness
Synonyms:
sordidness; squalidness; squalor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sordidness" is a kind of...):
dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)
Derivation:
sordid (foul and run-down and repulsive)
