sordid

adjective5

1. •
   Dirty or squalid.

   • They rented a sordid apartment together.
2. •
   Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

   • The politician was involved in a sordid money laundering scheme.
3. •
   Morally degrading.

   • I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues. — 1994
4. •
   Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
5. •
   Of a dull colour.