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Sorted vs. Sordid — What's the Difference?

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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