And there you are, with your kindness and gentleness andeverythingutterly wasted on a dull, sordid brute who had already insulted you once. . . .

In English, many Adverbs are derived from adjectives by the addition of ly: which is an abbreviation for like, and which, though the addition of it to a noun forms an adjective, is the most distinctive as well as the most common termination of our adverbs: as, candid, candidly; sordid, sordidly; presumptuous, presumptuously.

You may think, dear Don, that my views are exceedingly sordid.

She was very rich indeed, but to her it all seemed horribly sordid and grinding and meanand the peasants looked prematurely old, labour-worn, filthy, wretchedly poor.

Stingy, close, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid, Storm, tempest, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoon Straight, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright.

If one of the approved authors under discussion seemed to me painfully sordid and debased, one was told to look out for his tonic realism and his virile force.

An unhealthy sentimentalitythe antithesis of moralityhas gone hand in hand with a peculiarly sordid and repulsive materialism.

The weeping old woman told a halting story of a dissipated son, a shrewish daughter-in-law, and a state of servitude on her own part,a story pitifully sordid in its details.

In English, many Adverbs are derived from adjectives by the addition of ly: which is an abbreviation for like, and which, though the addition of it to a noun forms an adjective, is the most distinctive as well as the most common termination of our adverbs: as, candid, candidly; sordid, sordidly; presumptuous, presumptuously.

"I ask, because, as your husband has discovered, I am utterly sordid, my lady, and care only for your wealth.