To me there is nothing sadder, nothing more sordid in history, than the feeble, useless existence of Louis XV., whose early years promised so well.

Thus, the King of England, who had filled the whole world with his renown, found himself, during the most critical state of his affairs, confined in a dungeon, and loaded with irons, in the heart of Germany [o], and entirely at the mercy of his enemies, the basest and most sordid of mankind.

The man or woman, sordid with the common dust of life, who crossed his daily path, and the little child who played in it, were glorified if he beheld them in his mood of poetic faith.

She has had a drunken father practically upon her hands, and life's been pretty sordid for her.

" "We are not so sordid as that at Dane Mount.

My residence here must look pretty sordid from the outside.”

As for the trader, he might have looked a little less sordid than his attendant.

Perspiration, heat, exhaustion from travelling on foot, with dust, added something sordid to his general wretched appearance.