Sordid

Examples

• This is no sordid suit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And he is worth--not to say his sordid expenses--but thrice his weight in gold, said Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There is no production in us now, only sordid and foul mechanicalness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She's a fishwife, a fishwife, she is such a materialiSt. And all so sordid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The savage is sordid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• One could not bear any more of this shame of sordid routine and mechanical nullity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I mention it now, only as a corroboration (though I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now one was not a child, and one knew that the soul was a prisoner within this sordid vast edifice of life, and there was no escape, save in death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You think me horribly sordid, don't you? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Will she forget what she knows of my poor ambition, my sordid schemes? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I never saw anything that did not proclaim the lady--nothing sordid, nothing soiled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How sordid life was, how it was a terrible shame to the soul, to live now! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To a man of my sentiments, however, the subject is deplorably sordid. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Lolita