sordid

sordid is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Filthy; foul; dirty. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Filthy; foul; dirty.
2. adjective. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
3. adjective. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
4. adjective. meanly avaricious and mercenary

   "sordid avarice"

   "sordid material interests"

5. adjective. foul and run-down and repulsive

   "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"

   "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"

   Synonyms: flyblown, squalid

6. adjective. unethical or dishonest

   "dirty police officers"

   "a sordid political campaign"

   Synonyms: dirty

7. adjective. morally degraded- Seattle Weekly- James Joyce

   "a seedy district"

   "the seamy side of life"

   Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid

Synonyms

flyblown, squalid, dirty, seamy, seedy, sleazy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sordid:

droids

Common word forms

sordidly, sordidity, sordidness

Words from these letters

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