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Sparing vs Sordid - What's the difference?

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Sparing is a related term of sordid.


As adjectives the difference between sparing and sordid

is that sparing is prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal while sordid is dirty or squalid.

As a verb sparing

is .

sparing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal

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    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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