Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Squalidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being squalid.
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- noun The state of being
squalid
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- noun sordid dirtiness
Etymologies
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Examples
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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!
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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.
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It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
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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.
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He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all.
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It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
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This gets the spotlight off the confirmed squalidness of the case. 911 calls report racist epithets being screamed by men in the party house.
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Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
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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.
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It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
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