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Sordid vs Obscenity - What's the difference?

sordid | obscenity |

As an adjective sordid

is dirty or squalid.

As a noun obscenity is

(countable) something that is obscene.

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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    obscenity

    English

    Noun

    (obscenities)
  • (countable) Something that is obscene.
    • Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
  • (countable) An act of obscene behaviour.
    • Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
  • (countable) Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
    • Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
  • (uncountable) The qualities that make something obscene; lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour.
    • The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.