Sordid

Can you understand why they have to pig it in one sordid room?

Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.

Sami's sordid love affair destroyed his marriage.

Ziri hates Rima's sordid stories.

He resists the sordid task.

The more hopelessly sordid 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 a sordid world.

I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.

It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.