Word: sordidly
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...cops broke into the gas-filled Manhattan basement with a sense of dreary familiarity-spectators at a sad and sordid drama which had been enacted a thousand times before in a thousand other cheap rooms. There was the battered stove with its jets silently exhaling death. There were the whisky bottle and the two unwashed glasses. There was the rumpled bed. There were two figures, a man and a woman-motionless, voiceless, impersonal as dummies...
Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the story whipped up. His march to the electric chair was the windup of the thing. Jolly, what...
...modern morality play. In its terms, vulgarity is evil, good taste is grace, "to let life bore you" is the cardinal sin, and no one is ever saved from anything. His crisp prose style and his deft aim with the acid of satire keep his novel from being pointlessly sordid. But as the parade of homosexual flirts, pimps and spivs crosses its pages, it becomes uncertain whether Author Wilson is exploring the lower depths of England or of Hell...
Drama & Debate. This generation of Americans tends to view politics as a sordid and (worse) senseless contest...
After a pre-convention week of sordid chicanery, the delegates rose up on a moral issue and stopped the Taft steamroller. Five hours later, Douglas MacArthur, in an unforgettable address, diagnosed the ills of the Republic and offered a cure-the Constitution...