Definition of "sordidly" [sor•did•ly]

• In a sordid manner; in a way that is dirty or morally low. (adverb)

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• "I am sordidly debating within myself … the perennial question ..."
• "But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the center of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality."
• "It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits."