squalidness

IPA: skwˈɑɫʌdnʌs

Examples of "squalidness" in Sentences

He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all.
Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
This gets the spotlight off the confirmed squalidness of the case. 911 calls report racist epithets being screamed by men in the party house.
And I've carried swag for months out back in Australia -- and it was life, in spite of its "squalidness" and meanness and wretchedness and hardship, and in spite of the fact that the world would have regarded us as "tramps" -- and a free life amongst _men_ from all the world!
It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding: I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened, and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around, and saw the barred windows, and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory, and I groaned bitterly.