Word: sordidly
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...gods, TIME, where in the world did you filch such sordid stuff as that...
...Species and varieties of plants and animals were considered changeless, and so were the races of man. The strange manlike bones found here & there in caves and quarries were thought to be the remains of monsters. The beliefs and practices of primitive people were shrugged off as so much sordid playacting. When the origin and fluidity of species, the significance of fossils and the rationale of primitive cultures were better understood, anthropology began to make progress as a serious study of man in all his aspects...
...TIME on the splendid manner in which it handled the story of the execution of Bruno Hauptmann [TIME, April 13]. It was refreshing to see that at least one periodical had the good taste to give the mere facts and leave out the superfluous details which cater to the sordid imagination of a morbid public...
These and similarly alarming statements were seriously set forth in an extraordinary collection of documents exhibited last week in Manhattan by the American Jewish Congress. Billed as "The Literature of Hate," the sordid show was also endorsed by the Catholic weekly Commonweal, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. To attract the curious, the promoters inserted a notice in the New York Times...
...thoroughly that when the examination had begun the effects had not yet worn off. But there was no occasion for regret; the scheme seemed to be working nobly. The subject matter was available; in fact, it was wellmarshalled and happily fluent. There was only one defect; the sordid mechanics of writing had slipped away...