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    Use "squalid" in a sentence

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    squalid


    1. The office was squalid, dark, cluttered


    2. She stopped beneath the squalid light


    3. I'd have to care quite a lot to come to a place as squalid as this


    4. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in the squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place


    5. Enclaves existed in the searing desert heat without the kind of infrastructure for food production or even a water supply; such a squalid existence only maintained by the occasional aid supply drop


    6. skyline that blinded them with ignorance from the squalid world


    7. - the bears continue to be caught and kept in squalid cages by owners of hotels and


    8. unnaturally cramped and squalid conditions, where they are ―milked‖ for bile and


    9. "The meaning of the dark and squalid church is: the Church has lost its dignity and power, as a result of its disgraceful and shameful acts for the sake of wealth and glory


    10. Batam-Al-Bur had not seen her since the shade of Saint Cipriano was so thick that concealed the squalid figure of the woman, but Tula did see him and was asking herself intrigued what so slovenly young man was doing in a place as sacred as the temple

    11. Hidden under the cover of the now squalid vegetation, we looked carefully for the best way to go


    12. Bordering on the Merchants’ Quarter, it offered more refined surroundings than the squalid areas they had passed through earlier


    13. As he drew near the squalid hovel of a certain leprous man, the afflicted one, having heard of his fame as a healer, made bold to accost him as he passed his door, saying as he knelt before him: "Lord, if only you would, you could make me clean


    14. And a tall gaunt man with a scar on his temple sat with his elbows on a wine-stained table in a squalid cellar with a brass lantern hanging from a smoke-blackened beam overhead, and held converse with ten desperate rogues whose sinister countenances and ragged garments proclaimed their profession


    15. He stared hard into the shadows of the squalid buildings, but saw nothing, though once he caught the faint rasp of cloth or leather against flesh


    16. A bunk built against the rough stone wall, a bare table and a bench completed the furnishings of the squalid chamber


    17. Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples


    18. Aureliano Triste stood on the threshold waiting for the dust to clear and then he saw in the center of the room the squalid woman, still dressed in clothing of the past century, with a few yellow threads on her bald head, and with two large eyes, still beauti-ful, in which the last stars of hope had gone out, and the skin of her face was wrinkled by the aridity of solitude


    19. She did not see the girls diving into the transparent rivers like tarpons, leaving the passengers on the train with the bitterness of their splendid breasts, or the miserable huts of the workers all huddled together where Mauricio Babilo-nia’s yellow butterflies fluttered about and in the door-ways of which there were green and squalid children sitting on their pots, and pregnant women who shouted insults at the train


    20. When Aureliano Segundo decided to go see what was going on, he found only the corpse of the horse and a squalid mule in the ruins of the stable

    21. squalid town in the middle of nowhere


    22. The condition of the lil bomber’s squalid apartment made


    23. of the squalid table


    24. the squalid neighborhood on the west side of Baltimore


    25. Unfortunately, our history is full of tales of refugees, sometimes whole ethnic groups, chased from their homes by wars or natural catastrophes, only to end up rotting for years or even decades in squalid refugee camps providing them only bare subsistence means, while the rest of the planet either forgot about them or stopped caring for them


    26. nearly an hour cleaning the squalid place of business and


    27. These were the squalid circumstances in which the ‘Great


    28. “You're in, you are, Libertyville, the squalid mainland of fend for


    29. By exclusive Hamilton and squalid Lytton,


    30. Then he returned to the squalid trailer to retrieve the all-important oxygen tank

    31. She very evidently cared nothing for the squalid tragedies of human fate


    32. I saw several gangs of youths walking together along these squalid streets


    33. Brussels had conveniently turned a blind eye to the squalid and medieval conditions of its prisons


    34. Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you


    35. In our conversations during my two days with Laura, she hinted that Telly had parallel dalliances even while he was with her but again I was torn between wanting the details and the need to remain aloof and above Telly"s squalid behavior


    36. squalid room, the disquiet had simmered


    37. Within walking distance of the greatness of their ancestor’s architectural accomplishments, the descendents lived out their lives in squalid barbaric conditions, a mere shadow of their former glory


    38. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD


    39. In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress


    40. stared at me with astonishment; and I turned my eyes on the squalid object [that

    41. "They had excited sensations similar to those I have felt, in viewing the squalid inhabitants of some of the lanes and back streets of the metropolis,


    42. 'Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should be seen both of mortals and immortals


    43. The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning


    44. Their homes were squalid, their children half-starved and raggedly clothed in grotesque garments hastily fashioned out of the cast-off clothes of charitable neighbours


    45. He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous


    46. Hurrying to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the quayside I touched his hand


    47. `Through squalid life they laboured in


    48. They could see the sprawling yellow clinker-brick complex of the AEG Kabelwerk factory just outside town, but they could not see the thousands of slave laborers that would soon be put to work there, manufacturing electric cables, laboring twelve hours a day, living in squalid camps nearby until they died of typhus or malnutrition


    49. As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling


    50. It opened on to a squalid courtyard




















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    Synonyms for "squalid"

    flyblown sordid squalid seamy seedy sleazy filthy foul unclean soiled

    "squalid" definitions

    morally degraded


    foul and run-down and repulsive