SORDID, SORDIDNESS
ADJECTIVES
► CRASSY sordid, dirty, greasy → 1858 obs.
► GAGGY sordid, highly distasteful → 1960s US homosexual sl.
► MUCKY contemptible, sordid → 1683 Eng. dial.
► RAUNCHY sordid, sloppy; contemptible, excessive, seedy → 1930s sl., orig. US
► SORDIDOUS sordid, dirty, abject, base → 1602 obs.
NOUNS
► LEPTOLOGY a description of mean and sordid things → 1681 obs.
► SLEAZE sordidness, sleaziness; immorality → 1967 UK sl.
► SORDITUDE sordidness → 1623 obs.
► SORDOR physical or moral sordidness → 1823
NOUNS – PERSON
► EARTHWORM a mean or grovelling or servile person; a covetous, grasping person; a miser; a sordid wretch → 1594
► GRUBBER a person who gets together wealth by sordid or contemptible methods → 1578
► HUNKS a surly, cross-grained old person; a close-fisted, stingy man; a miser; a miserable, niggardly old person; a covetous, sordid man → 1602
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