[hagebudai] (n) bullethead parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus, was Scarus sordidus); daisy parrotfish [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
{Swart}, a.]
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
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A sordid god; down from his hoary chin
A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
--Dryden.
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2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To
scorn the sordid world." --Milton.
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3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
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He may be old,
And yet sordid, who refuses gold. --Sir J.
Denham.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sordid
adj 1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos";
"sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle
Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his
very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: {seamy}, {seedy}, {sleazy},
{sordid}, {squalid}]
2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
political campaign" [syn: {dirty}, {sordid}]
3: 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" [syn: {flyblown}, {squalid}, {sordid}]
4: meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid
material interests"
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