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
It is, in truth, a wild impressive place, full of beauty and terror, and with none of the squalidness of the mere dungeon about it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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 James Dabney McCabe
There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness.—I.
From Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Thomas Herbert Darlow
