sordidness

His palatial property overlooks the old wells where he’d made his fortune, but by the end of the story, Marlowe sees figurative as well as literal sordidness among its remnants.

I remain confident Trump will pay a political price in time, as the sordidness of all this sinks in.

Despite the pungent combination of brevity and sordidness, the actors acquit themselves by finding candid portrayals of the condemned classmates.

But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique.

But on “Housewives”? This level of sordidness is not what viewers are here for.