sordid – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of sordid

Adjective: sordid

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativesordider
Superlativesordidest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice. [1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 6, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, pages 88–89:]
  • The politician was involved in a sordid money laundering scheme.
  • They rented a sordid apartment together.
  • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world. [1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:]
  • I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues. [1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number]
  • It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race. [2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)]
  • Leaves sordid-tomentulose beneath [1926, Paul Carpenter Standley, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico: Bignoniaceae-Asteraceae, page 1530:]

Adjectives inflected like sordid

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin sordēs
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
6. Proto-Italic *-ēō
7. Latin -eō
8. Latin sordeō
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
10. Proto-Italic *-iðos
11. Latin -idus
12. Latin sordidusder.
13. Middle English sordid
14. ▲
15. Latin sordiduslbor.
16. French sordideder.
17. English sordid
18. From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.
19. Alternatively from French sordide. See: Latin Adjectives 'sordidus', French Adjectives 'sordide'.