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Sordid vs Disreputable - What's the difference?

sordid | disreputable |

As adjectives the difference between sordid and disreputable

is that sordid is dirty or squalid while disreputable is not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.

As a noun disreputable is

a person who is not reputable.

sordid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • 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.
  • Grasping.

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    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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    disreputable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is not reputable.