Sentence examples for sordid transaction from inspiring English sources

So this will be the scope of the investigation: it's not a question of if someone must pay the price for the sordid transaction, it's just a matter of whom.

Derived from ­Hindi and Sanskrit, it emerged in British India, where it no doubt proved useful in describing some of the more sordid transactions of empire.

Unlike Proust's accounts of delusional passion, the truth of their love is never in doubt, despite the sordid commercial transaction with which it begins.

Because the proper liar knows that the movements of people through time are not eased by transactions of truth; rather than a sordid fact that would demand an unpleasant effort on the teacher's part, he knew he had to deliver certain other things.

The tale is sordid.

Frequenting prostitutes is sordid.

What sort of sordid venture?

It was sordid.

How sad, how sordid.

Everything seemed so sordid.

Here, it is all sordid exploitative stuff.