sordidness

1. The sordidness of the blackmail attempt shocked many members of the public.
   这种企图勒索的卑鄙行为震动了社会大众。
2. His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence.
   他对这样的人物充满敬佩之情；他们蔑视肮脏的生涯，并冒着遭受报复的危险，摆脱善与恶的羁绊，堂堂皇皇地活下去。
3. Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of flesh and spirit;
   这里的生活除了灵与肉的肮脏和悲惨，什么也提供不了。

noun

1. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

   Synonym:    basenesscontemptibilitydespicablenessdespicability

2. sordid dirtiness

   Synonym:    squalorsqualidness