(sordēs, is) sing. only acc. and abl., and sordēs, ium (as plur. tantum), f
dirt, filth, uncleanness, squalor: in sordibus aurium inhaerescere: Auriculae contectā sorde
dolentes, H.—Soiled clothing as a mourning garb, mourning: iacere in lacrimis et sordibus: insignis sordibus turba,
L.—Fig., lowness, meanness of rank, low condition, humiliation, vileness,
baseness: fortunae et vitae: emergere ex miserrimis naturae tuae
sordibus: in infamiā relinqui ac sordibus.—Of persons,
the dregs of the people, rabble: urbis: o lutum, sordes!
vile creature!—Meanness, stinginess, niggardliness, sordidness: amare sordes et inhumanitatem: sordes obicere mihi, H.: cogit minimas ediscere sordes, the meanest tricks, Iu.: nullam (huius) in re familiari sordem posse proferri.