Words similar to sordid

Example sentences for: sordid

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Howie Kurtz, reporter, Washington Post : "It would be hard for me to claim to have a drug-free college education, but I'm not going to go into the sordid details."
Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.
The sordid hardships of post-war Italy — unemployment, the black market, and prostitution — have been made graphically familiar through the brilliant neo-realist cinema of Rossellini, de Sica, and Fellini.
After some heated discussion we agreed to place a $5 wager on the whole sordid mess, thus adding five more dollars to the $40 million cost.
Through the clever and sometimes masterful use of language, the same activity or event was made to sound logical, or patriotic, or it could appear to be sordid and bordering on treason.