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Sordid vs Rhyparography - What's the difference?

sordid | rhyparography |

As an adjective sordid

is dirty or squalid.

As a noun rhyparography is

the painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.

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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    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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    rhyparography

    English

    Noun

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  • (arts) The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.