The more hopelesslysordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
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 asordid world.
1994,The Lion King,Be Prepared musical number:
I know it soundssordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part inLeague of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
It is asordid business, this divvying us up by race.
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