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Adjective sordid has 4 senses
- seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid - morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
Antonym: reputable (indirect, via disreputable)
- dirty, sordid - unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Antonym: incorrupt (indirect, via corrupt)
- flyblown, squalid, sordid - foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- sordid - meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
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