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

Her imitation of the lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had the look, not only of being lived in, but of having lived; of having lived hard, brutally, squalidly, and of being worn out.

From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May