sordid

Meanings

• morally degraded; ; ; ; - Seattle Weekly; - James Joyce
  • "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"
• unethical or dishonest
  • "a sordid political campaign"
• foul and run-down and repulsive
  • "sordid shantytowns"
• meanly avaricious and mercenary
  • "sordid avarice"
  • "sordid material interests"

Synonyms

dirty, flyblown, seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid