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SORDIDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sordidly mean?
• SORDIDLY (adverb)
The adverb SORDIDLY has 1 sense:
1. in a sordid or squalid way
Familiarity information: SORDIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a sordid or squalid way
Synonyms:
sordidly; squalidly
Pertainym:
sordid (foul and run-down and repulsive)
Context examples
The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke’s; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down—
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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