| slovo | definícia |
sordid
(encz) | sordid,nečestný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sordid
(encz) | sordid,špinavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Sordid
(gcide) | Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
Swart, a.]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
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A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
--Dryden.
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2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To
scorn the sordid world." --Milton.
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3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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He may be old,
And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J.
Denham.
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sordid
(wn) | sordid
adj 1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos";
"sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle
Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his
very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy,
sordid, squalid]
2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid]
3: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge
of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest
part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid
shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]
4: meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid
material interests" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
sordidly
(encz) | sordidly,nečestně adv: Zdeněk Brožsordidly,sprostě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
sordidness
(encz) | sordidness,nečestnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Contopus sordidulus
(gcide) | Contopus \Contopus\ n.
a genus of birds comprised of pewees, and including the {wood
pewees} Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens.
Syn: genus Contopus.
[WordNet 1.5] Contorniate |
Sordid
(gcide) | Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
Swart, a.]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
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A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
--Dryden.
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2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To
scorn the sordid world." --Milton.
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3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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He may be old,
And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J.
Denham.
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Sordidly
(gcide) | Sordidly \Sor*did"ly\, n.
Sordidness. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Sordidly \Sor"did*ly\, adv.
In a sordid manner.
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Sordidness
(gcide) | Sordidness \Sor"did*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being sordid.
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Tropidorhynchus sordidus
(gcide) | leatherneck \leath"er*neck`\, n.
1. (Zool.) The sordid friar bird of Australia
(Tropidorhynchus sordidus).
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2. [from the leather collar that was once part of their
uniform.] A member of the United States Marine Corps; a
United States Marine. [slang]
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contopus sordidulus
(wn) | Contopus sordidulus
n 1: small flycatcher of western North America [syn: {western
wood pewee}, Contopus sordidulus] |
hygrophorus sordidus
(wn) | Hygrophorus sordidus
n 1: an edible fungus with a large white cap and a dry stalk and
white gills |
sordidly
(wn) | sordidly
adv 1: in a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly] |
sordidness
(wn) | sordidness
n 1: sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor,
squalidness]
2: unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn:
baseness, sordidness, contemptibility,
despicableness, despicability] |
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