Behind the elegant facade lay the sordid details of how the workers had been housed during construction.
优雅的外墙背后，是施工期间工人居住条件的不堪细节。
Which choice best defines “sordid”?
A — Morally squalid; filthy.. “sordid” means Morally squalid; filthy..
Which word means “Morally squalid; filthy.”?
D — sordid. “sordid” means Morally squalid; filthy..
sordid — Morally squalid; filthy.. In Chinese: 肮脏的；卑鄙的.
sordid is pronounced //ˈsɔːdɪd//.
Behind the elegant facade lay the sordid details of how the workers had been housed during construction. (优雅的外墙背后，是施工期间工人居住条件的不堪细节。)
squalid, seedy, wretched — all close in meaning to sordid (Morally squalid; filthy.).
honorable, wholesome — each the opposite of sordid (Morally squalid; filthy.).
Yes. sordid is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
sord(污) → 龌龊。