adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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squalid slums
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a squalid and corrupt political system
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After the squalid conditions of the refugee camps even this place seems preferable.
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Dalmer lived in a squalid little room above a shop.
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Her childhood was spent in the squalid slums east of the city.
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The living conditions these immigrants endure are squalid , at best.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the way of life this film holds up to be squalid and ruinous is the way of Woodstock.
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He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid .
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He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford, which they shared with another couple and their children.
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He nodded Chant on, and together they headed over the ill-lit and squalid ground.
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In 1597 this priest with degrees in both divinity and law opened a school in the squalid part of Tiber.
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More children still swarm in the slums and the squalid quaysides of nearby Talcahuano...
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She particularly noted the squalid condition of many schools.
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That raffle was no more squalid than the raffle we all play every day.