sord-
(Latin: sordidus, dirty, foul, filthy, squalid; dirt, filth; related to sordes, "dirt")
Sordes can occur in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.
Sordes can be a dark brown or blackish crust-like collection on the lips, teeth, and gums of a person with dehydration associated with a chronic debilitating disease.
2. Squalid, dirty, filthy, and depressing: Despite growing up in a sordid and poor neighborhood, the young woman went to school and became a teacher.
3. Morally ignoble or base; vile; used figuratively to mean immoral or dishonest: The evil man used sordid methods to entice new immigrants to work for him, but unfortunately he exploited or took advantage of them.
4. Meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary: The sordid ambitions of Brent Kent's business resulted in his exploiting the needs of the underpaid workers.
5. Referring to a dull, dirty, or muddy hue: Sailing down the river, Jason could hardly believe how sordid and polluted the water looked.
6. Etymology: from Latin sordes, "dirt."
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The protagonist in the novel was described as a sordidly Jewish figure, with a very low moral standing.
2. Concerning how something is of a dull or muddy color. The stream just outside the residential area had a sordidly mucky hue and evidentially very polluted.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; terr-.