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Six example sentences with sordid, each labelled with its topic.
The novel's charming banker turns out to be sordid, cheating his clients and lying to the woman who trusts him.
Literature
Behind the glamour the studio's accounting was sordid, with unpaid extras and ledgers cooked to hide who took the profits.
Movies
Investors walked away once the sordid details emerged: forged invoices, a fake auditor, and a chairman quietly paying himself twice.
Business
The memoir describes a sordid deal in which votes were traded for road contracts, and three names in it later resigned.
Politics
Historians call the coin clipping trade sordid, since the men trusted to weigh silver shaved every coin that passed through their hands.
History
The sordid truth about the fund came out in court: forged statements and new clients' savings paying off the old ones.
Finance
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