From this wrecking thought it was an easy step to condemnation of his father for his fatherhood, which, with his near-enmity toward his mother for her "criminal ignorance" in rearing him, introduced a sordidly demoralizing element into his mind which forever viciously tinctured memories and relations which should have been his sacred helpers.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
The spirit of the place has not changed; it is as it was, splendidly and sordidly commercial.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
I did, indeed, recall the thick-breathed sweltering Sunday morning when I had visited the region in July; but it is all now so absolutely and sordidly modern that one has no difficulty in believing that it was altogether different when so many Southern and especially Virginian emigrations began there.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells