The Lounge Kittens would be the scandalous by product of that sordid affair'. None of these goings-on is presented as sordid or seedy. She repeatedly taunted Maxim with sordid tales of her numerous love affairs. Violence is horrible, degrading and sordid. War as detailed by his pen was a cruel and sordid business. They reveal more of the man's sordid life. Bond gently dissuades her, citing how sordid prostitution is. It emphasises the tension between the good exterior and the sordid truth behind materialism. Sentimental slumming dramas avoid "the sordid" and "degraded environment and social interactions". She asks him to forget her sordid past and pretend to love her. Initially, Baby refuses, for the fear of the sordid fact tearing apart his married life. They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Naima receives an anonymous letter from Dot, who has discovered Saeed's sordid exploits. He wrote about a sordid world from the perspective of a gentleman. Bill warms to an appreciative Peggy, although she tells him about her sordid past.