squalid

Speech parts

1. squalid - Noun

2. squalid - Adjective

3. squalid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

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Examples

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. Learned Hand

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Jorge Luis Borges

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. Winston Churchill

There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city. Norman Lewis

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. Aldous Huxley

What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag? Aneurin Bevan

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