ˈskwälə(r) also -wȯl- or -wāl- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Latin, roughness, dirt, squalor; akin to Latin squalēre to be dirty, squalidus dirty, squalid, squama scale
1. : the quality or state of being physically squalid
dwellings … sinking stage by stage from indigence to squalor — Lewis Mumford
2.
a. : moral baseness : corruption
presenting a picture of political squalor to the country — Russell Baker
b. : absence of intellectual sensitivity : crassness
depressing squalor of the … mind — Dachine Rainer