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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

It evidently should not be there—its squalidness and filth are all that strike you.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony

He dwells with them for a month, and finds, after a day of pleasant entertainment, that each evening they do penance in squalidness and ashes.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

French poetry, which at that period could hardly sustain itself with rhyme, denuded of this slight dress must have betrayed the squalidness of bare poverty.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac