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Sordid vs Turpitude - What's the difference?

sordid | turpitude |

As an adjective sordid

is dirty or squalid.

As a noun turpitude is

inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.

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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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    turpitude

    English

    Noun

  • Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
  • *
  • An act evident of such a depravity.

    • Related terms

    * turpid * turpidly * turpitudinous