Sordid vs Dingy - What's the difference?
sordid | dingy |
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
* 1912 ,
Grasping.
drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
(rfv-sense) Penis.
As adjectives the difference between sordid and dingy
is that sordid is dirty or squalid while dingy is drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.As a noun dingy is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sordidity * sordidly * sordidnessAnagrams
*dingy
English
Etymology 1
From English dialectal (Kentish) . http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=dingy&searchmode=noneAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* (drab) dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grimyAntonyms
* (drab) bright, cleanDerived terms
* dingily * dinginessNoun
(head)Etymology 2
Noun
(dingies)- (Charles Dickens)