sordid motives

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• sordid — adjective Etymology: Latin sordidus, from sordes dirt more at swart Date: 1606 1. marked by baseness or grossness ; vile < sordid motives > 2. a. dirty, filthy b. wretched, squalid …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sordid — ► ADJECTIVE 1) involving ignoble actions and motives. 2) dirty or squalid. DERIVATIVES sordidly adverb sordidness noun. ORIGIN Latin sordidus, from sordere be dirty …   English terms dictionary

• sordid — adjective 1 involving immoral or dishonest behaviour: sordid political motives | sordid details: She revealed all the sordid details of her affair with Pascal. 2 very dirty and unpleasant; squalid (1): a sordid little room at the top of the house …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sordid — adjective 1》 involving ignoble actions and motives. 2》 dirty or squalid. Derivatives sordidly adverb sordidness noun Origin ME: from Fr. sordide or L. sordidus, from sordere be dirty …   English new terms dictionary

• Adulation — Ad u*la tion, n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. [1913 Webster] Think st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Shak.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sordidly — sordid ► ADJECTIVE 1) involving ignoble actions and motives. 2) dirty or squalid. DERIVATIVES sordidly adverb sordidness noun. ORIGIN Latin sordidus, from sordere be dirty …   English terms dictionary

• sordidness — sordid ► ADJECTIVE 1) involving ignoble actions and motives. 2) dirty or squalid. DERIVATIVES sordidly adverb sordidness noun. ORIGIN Latin sordidus, from sordere be dirty …   English terms dictionary

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