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.
- From the 1930s to the 1940s many people lived in squalid conditions.
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