Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOR'DID, a. [Fr. sordide; It. sordido; L. sordidus, from sordes, filth.]

1. Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. There Charon stands / A sordid god. – Dryden. [This literal sense is nearly obsolete.]
2. Vile; base; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. – Cowley.
3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old / And yet not sordid, who refuses god. – Denham.