Life insurance. Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations), is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money (the benefit) in exchange for a premium, upon the death of an insured person (often the policy holder).
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of sordid is something dirty, squalid or morally distasteful. 1  When someone is living in a filthy apartment with bugs everywhere, this is an example of living in sordid conditions. 2  A morally objectionable pornographic film is an example of a sordid film.
Sordid Sentence Examples. 1  I flirted like a hooker and goaded him into discussing all those sordid confessions he'd be hearing. 2  That sounds so sordid but, I guess, something like that. 3  His is a sordid history.  It's a little sordid and not undeserved, but I must say, it's plausible. He remained, however, uncertain how to do so without immersing himself further in Lydia Larkin's sordid activities. For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one.