squalid
adjective
foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy.
squalidness
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a word derived from
squalid.
Example Sentences
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Lloyd George called it a "war budget" – raising money to "wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
The squalidness of the town he had left so tumultuously struck upon his memory nauseatingly.
From The Gringos by Anton Otto Fischer
All was sincere squalidness, patriotic pauperism—the unwashing principle.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
It evidently should not be there—its squalidness and filth are all that strike you.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
It began to rain, torrents sweeping the planks overhead, while vivid flashes of lightning illumined the open hatch, before it could be hastily closed, revealing the squalidness of the interior in which we were quartered.
From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish
