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

I went out amongst them, and my heart sank within me as I surveyed them; so much squalidness, dirt, and misery I had never before seen amongst a similar number of human beings. 

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert

Notwithstanding their squalidness, it is surprising that they are very far from being uncultivated in their morals.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

Fine gentlemen in broad cloth, ladies in silks and jewels, and beggars in squalidness and rags, are mingled here in true Republican confusion.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

All was sincere squalidness, patriotic pauperism—the unwashing principle.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various