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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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sordid
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synonyms: base, ignoble ???
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Definition:1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Doctor: [...] I think you're in luck though, an extraordinary new cure has just been developed for exactly this kind of sordid problem.
Blackadder: It wouldn't have anything to do with leeches, would it?
Doctor: I had no idea you were a medical man.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Bells
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Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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my humiliating, sordid, taciturn love life.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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