SQUALID


Meaning of SQUALID in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

squalid slums

a squalid and corrupt political system

After the squalid conditions of the refugee camps even this place seems preferable.

Dalmer lived in a squalid little room above a shop.

Her childhood was spent in the squalid slums east of the city.

The living conditions these immigrants endure are squalid , at best.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And the way of life this film holds up to be squalid and ruinous is the way of Woodstock.

He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid .

He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford, which they shared with another couple and their children.

He nodded Chant on, and together they headed over the ill-lit and squalid ground.

In 1597 this priest with degrees in both divinity and law opened a school in the squalid part of Tiber.

More children still swarm in the slums and the squalid quaysides of nearby Talcahuano...

She particularly noted the squalid condition of many schools.

That raffle was no more squalid than the raffle we all play every day.

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