Example Sentences

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Hindley has kindness solely for Frances, and when she dies he crumbles squalidly.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2022

A squalidly funny collection of short stories set in the ruined fairground of Brexit Britain, these “postcards from hell” present parochial filth as mock epic.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2020

They then enter a brief and squalidly unhappy marriage.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2018

Meanwhile, life goes on even more squalidly than usual among the lodgers in the Clitheroe rooming house.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a foolish community that can house whole classes, useful and helpful, honest and loyal classes, in such squalidly unsuitable dwellings.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)