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Перевод: sordid

[прилагательное]
противный; низкий; подлый; жалкий; убогий; корыстный; грязный

Тезаурус:

1. Finally, he is drawn to the essence of Muir's genius which he sees as that of "the sensibility of the remote islander", and the words that follow give one final transformation of the savage and city motif, when he describes Muir as "the boy from a simple primitive offshore community who then was plunged into the sordid horror of industrialism in Glasgow, who struggled to understand the modern world of the metropolis in London
2. It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty, of overwork, of perpetual near-incarceration, of eternal nagging demands, and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire.
3. His homosexuality made him an outcast, he had no job to do, very little money to live on, and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past.
4. Introducing Baudelaire's Intimate Journals , he praised the Frenchman's skill in elevating "imagery of the sordid life of a great metropolis to the first intensity " and creating "a mode of release and expression for other men".
5. Again referring to Derwentwater he laments nature "despoiled of its charms by sordid insensibility and all its leafy honours laid low".
6. EastEnders, regarded by senior BBC managers as having lost its way with sordid story lines, is being given a new producer.
7. At the beginning of 1946, John had another reason for fretting; he had to change his lodgings and was living in digs that were "too sordid" to write about.
8. They usually did it for more obvious, sordid reasons; they wanted money, they had fallen in love with someone else or lost their temper.
9. Hampden Babylon is a book about the sordid and seedy underbelly of Scottish football, but in many respects it is also a book about Scotland itself.
10. Anyway there was nothing really sordid about what we sold.
11. The interest Margaret takes in factory life and the processes of manufacturing - which her mother finds sordid and repellent - is a displaced manifestation of her unacknowledged erotic feelings for Thornton.
12. Ambulances and doctors would be called, the right people would all be bribed, and the sordid mess would be efficiently covered up.
13. And sordid behaviour does exist, for even without the labelling techniques beloved of deviance theorists and favoured by the police, there remains the grim fact that such activities would not cease to occur (Maguire 1974).