1 : meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
2 : unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"; "shoddy business practices"
3 : foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
