sordid

morally degraded

• “a seedy district”
• “the seamy side of life”
• “sleazy characters hanging around casinos”
• “sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls” Seattle Weekly
• “the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils” James Joyce
• “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal”

unethical or dishonest

• “dirty police officers”
• “a sordid political campaign”

foul and run-down and repulsive

• “a flyblown bar on the edge of town”
• “a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town”
• “squalid living conditions”
• “sordid shantytowns”

meanly avaricious and mercenary

• “sordid avarice”
• “sordid material interests”