Sentence examples for sordid operation from inspiring English sources
Once the sordid operation was complete, Europe had automatically acquired another reason for refusing to discuss debt restructuring: it would now hit the pockets of European citizens!
Even the fastidious Goncourt brothers liked to go slumming: "Before sitting down... they had spent the day in the field, taking notes for their descriptions of charity funerals, working life at its most sordid, operations and diseases of all kinds.
Forming the government was a sordid and costly process.
In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to the sordid business of undercover investigations and sting operations and becomes more interesting.
Within weeks of Mr. Petrino's hiring, however, Mr. Vick was accused of running an illegal dog-fighting operation at his farm in Virginia, the details of which were sordid in the extreme.
In that sordid case, the company inflated earnings to meet Wall Street's expectations, falsified operations statistics, and concealed blatant self-dealing by the founding family, the Rigas, who collected $3.1 billion in off-balance-sheet loans backed by Adelphia.
Frequenting prostitutes is sordid.
What sort of sordid venture?
