Word: sordidly
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...came out of my long retreat ... to help the Canadian people get rid of a certain class and of attempts at blackmailing public men, Governments and Parliaments in order to secure certain sordid ends . . . that sordid dominion of this group in Quebec which has been exercised by Lord Atholstan and the Montreal Star for 25 years...
...boys and girls from every variety of home storm the citadels of learning drawn there in the main by a common belief that college is a blessed institution for increasing money-making ability. And every year a similar multitude of young men and women are sent forth to their sordid battle from the gates of our colleges armed with a sheepskin, a bundle of new desires, a few common-place rules of economics, and with hardly a trace of originality among them--an army of pygmies fresh from the mold. The procession is a sufficient commentary upon the general state...
...foppish little Marquis, who last year laid bare with nauseating crudeness the sordid story&$134; of how he won and lost Anna Gould, is non est at Paris and consequently nobody paid much attention to his vaporing...
Before the first Romanov was born, Donskoi Monastery was building. It rises, barbarous, massive, beautiful, from the sordid fringes of Moscow. Under its countless roofs are a cathedral and six churches. Through its courtyard are always passing "black" monks, mitred abbots, bishops, for high sacrifice...
...five volume novel was considered a short story and when whole chapters were filled with declamation on a single object. That all this voluble writing was not taken too seriously, however, is shown by a letter addressed by Mr. Sterne to his publisher. He refers to his somewhat sordid volumes of Tristram Shandy as his "seven or eighth graceless children" but promises the publisher that he will make up for it by "begetting a couple of ecclesiastick ones" to atone for their sins...