Sorted vs. Sordid — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sorted and Sordid
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Sorted
A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind. See Usage Note at kind2.
Sordid
Involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt
The story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams
Sorted
Character or nature
Books of a subversive sort.
Sordid
Dirty or squalid
The overcrowded housing conditions were sordid and degrading
Sorted
One that exemplifies the characteristics of or serves a similar function to another
"A large dinner-party ... made a sort of general introduction for her to the society of the neighbourhood" (George Eliot).
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Sordid
Morally degraded
"The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce).
Sorted
A person; an individual
The clerk is a decent sort.
Sordid
Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
Sorted
(Computers) An operation that arranges data in a specified way
Did an alphabetic sort on the columns of data.
Sordid
Dirty or squalid.
Sorted
(Archaic) A way of acting or behaving
"in this sort the simple household lived / From day to day" (William Wordsworth).
Sordid
Morally degrading.
Sorted
To place or arrange according to class, kind, or size; classify
Sorted the books into boxes by genre.
Sordid
Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
Sorted
To separate from others
Sort the wheat from the chaff.
Sordid
Of a dull colour.
Sorted
To make a search or examination of a collection of things
Sorted through the laundry looking for a matching sock.
Sordid
Filthy; foul; dirty.
A sordid god; down from his hoary chinA length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
Sorted
To be or become arranged in a certain way.
Sordid
Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
Sorted
Simple past tense and past participle of sort
Sordid
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
He may be old,And yet sordid, who refuses gold.
Sorted
Put into some order by sorting.
A sorted list of numbers
Sordid
Morally degraded;
A seedy district
The seamy side of life
Sleazy characters hanging around casinos
Sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls
The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
The squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
Sorted
In good order, under control.
I have to get my life sorted.
Sordid
Unethical or dishonest;
Dirty police officers
A sordid political campaign
Sorted
In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.
Sorted for E's & Wizz (song by UK band Pulp)
Sordid
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
Sorted
A general expression of approval or completion
Sordid
Meanly avaricious and mercenary;
Sordid avarice
Sordid material interests
Sorted
Arranged according to size
Sorted
Arranged into groups
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