squalid
IPA: skwˈɑɫʌd
noun
- (zoology) Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
adjective
- Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
- Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
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Examples of "squalid" in Sentences
- Their room is squalid and dirty.
- Anthony lives in a squalid apartment.
- They live a life of squalid misery and unhappiness.
- Meanwhile, living standards were generally squalid.
- Detroit was not, a city of squalid tenements in 1967.
- Both sides are squalid and home to class distinctions.
- Fiction has its glories, but concealment is merely squalid.
- Typhus is associated with squalid conditions not lack of food.
- After Lisa's death, Mitchell was discovered in squalid conditions.
- In these savage fastnesses the pirates lived in squalid splendour.
- From the 1930s to the 1940s many people lived in squalid conditions.
- The only way that Mexicans can do it is by living in squalid, overcrowded apartments.
- I guess he prefers the “hard bigotry” of poisoning children by forcing them to live in squalid conditions.
- These innocent refugees were interned by Israel in squalid concentration camps such as Gaza and the West Bank.
- Native Americans often live in squalid conditions and are sadly lacking in adequate political action committees.
- The people live in squalid dens, where there can be no health and no hope, but dogged discontent at their own lot, and futile discontent at the wealth which they see possessed by others.
- Danton called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail Friday night and read a statement that focused on his relationship with his estranged parents, outlining allegations of "constant physical and emotional abuse" and saying he was raised in squalid conditions.
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