Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Filth; dregs; refuse; sordes.
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- noun
sordidness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness and the sad sordor of Experience.
Revenge of the Wimps 2010
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Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness and the sad sordor of Experience.
Revenge of the Wimps 2010
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The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale.
Nature 2006
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As the lone survivor of the day, it was his duty he believed to narrate all the details from out the barred window of his cell, and Ada and Ruby stayed to hear, though it was a tale of considerable sordor and bloodshed.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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As the lone survivor of the day, it was his duty he believed to narrate all the details from out the barred window of his cell, and Ada and Ruby stayed to hear, though it was a tale of considerable sordor and bloodshed.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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As candeo candor, ardeo ardor, sowe are to understandsordeo sordor.
Formations. 1908
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The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up.
Formations. 1908
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The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale.
sionnach commented on the word sordor
.... in the land of Sordor, where the shadow lies.
December 29, 2008
yarb commented on the word sordor
...the fantastic sordor of the slave ships...
- M. Amis, Koba the Dread
March 5, 2009