Sordidity

…are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?

She was not simply beautiful, but beautiful in a way that was so vastly improbable […] that to Richard, silly fool, she redeemed him, her, all of the sordidity and sopor, the tragic bathos that he felt sloshing about the Sealink.