adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
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George Broomham was questioned, but only briefly, before he admitted the whole sordid affair .
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All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair .
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To drag me into her sordid affairs .
story
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Her own sordid story could only be a bad influence on such a young and impressionable mind.
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It is a mildly sordid story .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sordid crime
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the sordid slums of modern cities
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The details of their affair were sordid and ugly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair.
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But by now the diplomatic enterprise was also beginning to be associated with more sordid activities.
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Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect, and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends.
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It awed me by how beautiful it could still appear in that sordid place.
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Out of this sordid mix of political short-sightedness and commercial greed, no government emerges with clean hands.
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Their sordid dormitory was attacked by hooligans.
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They asked him all the questions he had dreaded, and tried to make the relationship sound ugly and sordid .
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Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing?