How To Use Squalid In A Sentence

The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.
Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
Her life became more and more squalid and her expectations diminished.

Disease is also rife in the tiny squalid rooms where eight to ten men live, sleeping on bunk beds. Times, Sunday Times
About 120,000 of them live as internal refugees in squalid camps. Times, Sunday Times
Vegas has been a touchstone for a while of squalid stupid behavior, and the “what happens in Vegas” catch-phrase/marketing gimmick is definitely one of those things that has national saturation. THE HANGOVER Unrated Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
What keeps this series from drowning, not only in its squalid setting, depressing dynamics, and cornball cliché is this bucking of convention.
This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
Tens of thousands live in squalid refugee camps. The Sun
Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
And they insisted they had no fear of being caught because our jails are BETTER than their squalid houses. The Sun
He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month.
The nine men and two women were put up in squalid conditions and went for days eating only potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
These innocent refugees were interned by Israel in squalid concentration camps such as Gaza and the West Bank. Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog
the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
The Tory Party called the bill "the most squalid measure ever put before the Commons".
And it seems that when you outlaw the outward appearance of poverty, the poverty you find when you scratch the surface is much more squalid.
There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
They moved 14 times in under two years, each house more squalid than the last. Times, Sunday Times
Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
Colombo faced international criticism about the camps because civilians were not allowed visitors or to leave, and often lived in squalid conditions. Times, Sunday Times
a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
Maybe the term anchor would be better applied to the right-wingers who stay angry all the time and keep us stuck in the squalid port of stagnation and division, rather than allowing us to move out to the bright and sunny wide open sea of progress and care for others. Texas Liberal
Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded.
The nine men and two women were put up in squalid conditions and went for days eating only potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
Disease is also rife in the tiny squalid rooms where eight to ten men live, sleeping on bunk beds. Times, Sunday Times
Now he has been convicted, the anecdotes and personal testimonies stream out, so that reading the papers the following day felt pornographically squalid and terrifying.
Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
He was forced to sit for up to 20 hours a day in a squalid back room, sticking tiny pieces of silver onto napkin rings. Times, Sunday Times
squalid living conditions
I guess he prefers the “hard bigotry” of poisoning children by forcing them to live in squalid conditions. Think Progress » AP:
People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
It is proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
But then a squalid drinking den is no place to grow old. Times, Sunday Times
Through that view-medium of misfortune -- of a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature death -- we view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns's were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
Today I accompanied two Axis artists to a happening in a squalid squatter camp in downtown Johannesburg.
The other old man, whose clothes were equally squalid, sat more upright, and seemed livelier, and of a lighter heart, misfortune not having yet touched so blightingly the natural volatility of his disposition; for, now and then, he spoke in low tones to his companion, who sometimes smiled, but rarely made answer. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures show unmade beds, a squalid sitting room and a kitchen sink piled with dirty dishes. Times, Sunday Times
Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor.
Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.
By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities. When in Helvetica
He wondered who else had rented these squalid rooms, who would follow him when he left, what it would feel like to be court-martialled. TANK OF SERPENTS
And part Comic Relief film as she visited underpaid hotel workers in their squalid homes. Times, Sunday Times
They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
These people just don't sip, they imbibe, they absorb liquor like dehydrated sponges, letting the story-soothing booze flow through their veins until it seeps from their pores in the squalid stench of defeat.
They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
Although conditions ran to the squalid, many immigrants preferred saving their earnings to living in comfort.
But this is not a squalid bedsit or dingy warehouse. The Sun
Women were idealised in the home, but homes were often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
Her cheap room was squalid. The Sun
Besides, if folks want to have at him, they shouldn't have to enter his squalid den and endure the inevitable spitting and hissing from the corners. Archive 2009-05-01
They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion.
In squalid, solitary confinement, with only Grace Poole as her wardress, what wonder that she relapses?
But then a squalid drinking den is no place to grow old. Times, Sunday Times
Vice thrived in its most sordid and elegant forms, from squalid opium dens and off-the-street brothels to the decorum and plush luxuriance of the so-called French restaurants. Frank Norris
In West End drawing-rooms his personal gift had begun to tell no less than in this crowded, squalid East; and as his aims became known, other men, finding the thoughts of their own hearts revealed in him, or touched with that social compunction which is one of the notes of our time, came down and became his helpers. Robert Elsmere
The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus.
It was squalid, dirty, inconvenient and unbearably noisy. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures show unmade beds, a squalid sitting room and a kitchen sink piled with dirty dishes. Times, Sunday Times
But this is not a squalid bedsit or dingy warehouse. The Sun
She had spent the first six years of her life in squalid conditions. The Sun
He has made what he calls improvements, he claims a quasi-ownership in the land, and has the characteristic Celtic attachment for the patch of ground forming his holding, however squalid it may be, however inadequate for his support. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question
The accommodation is at best basic, but often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
When he sings about his marauding dipsomania and the opposite sex tearing his heart from his body, then stamping and twisting their heel into his hyper-sensitive organ on the squalid street, it rings true.
There were no upheavals, no debts, no squalid cookless hiatuses between intervals of showy hospitality; the household moved along on lines of quiet elegance and comfort, behind which only the eye of the housekeeping sex could have detected a gradually increasing scale of expense. The Best Man.
Tens of thousands live in squalid refugee camps. The Sun
Those officers were'shocked' by the squalid conditions inside the building. Times, Sunday Times
She was determined to liquidate anyone whose presence would have brought out the squalid little truths of those war years. MOONDROP TO MURDER
As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals.
But both, to gauge by the squalid setting, by the way they spring to attention at the sounding of a disembodied voice that issues from the dumbwaiter, are low men on the totem pole. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
From numerous visits to the city and perhaps even periods of short-term residence or work, islanders know that many Tahitian families struggle to make a living and reside in squalid shacks.
As Western leaders become mired in squalid chaos, there is a noticeable lack of any honourable values shining through.
The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
The pictures show unmade beds, a squalid sitting room and a kitchen sink piled with dirty dishes. Times, Sunday Times
They were squatting in squalid apartments with nicotine-stained walls Times, Sunday Times
Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions.
Conditions in the camp had been squalid, he said. Times, Sunday Times
She had spent the first six years of her life in squalid conditions. The Sun
Women were idealised in the home, but homes were often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, the tragic deaths with which the story ends descend from their mythic status in the book into the squalid and the sordid in the film. Christianity Today
It was squalid, dirty, inconvenient and unbearably noisy. Times, Sunday Times
The years 1903 to 1908 found him travelling all over Europe conducting for orchestras, which were never better than fourth rate, and one of which he described as 'solid, stolid, and squalid'.
Spain the men, however poor, have a gentleman-like abundance of leisure, seeming to consider it the attribute of a true cavaliero never to be in a hurry; but the Andalusians are gay as well as leisurely, and have none of the squalid accompaniments of idleness. The Alhambra
And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry.
The only way that Mexicans can do it is by living in squalid, overcrowded apartments. Immigration Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It's the usual squalid rock star tale of drugs, sex and overdoses.
Not to end them prematurely in some squalid crack house. The Sun
We drove past a row of squalid shacks on the way to our hotel, where we slept in air-conditioned, hermetically sealed rooms.
And they insisted they had no fear of being caught because our jails are BETTER than their squalid houses. The Sun
Then all is blank; and afterward the rains beat against the grimy windowpanes, or the snows fall upon my scant attire, the wheels rattle in the squalid streets where my life lies in poverty and mean employment.
But we knew that a flag flying above our squalid little camp would convert us from a fugitive rabble into a disciplined force which - however tiny - would have to be reckoned with.
Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
Union Station, one of the first of those dividend-built and dividend-building terminals that were to spring up quickly and palatially the country over, rose with a peculiarly American trick out of one of the most squalid sections of the city. Star-Dust
This is significant because both these luminaries had remained loyal servers of his regime of untruth during the war over Kosovo which had been waged with no less squalid level of deception.
POLICE raided a squalid house to find 35 people had been sharing it. The Sun
Disease is also rife in the tiny squalid rooms where eight to ten men live, sleeping on bunk beds. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety.
Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent.
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin attended the unveiling of a grim, grey cell modelled on the squalid chambers in the Syrian prison where they were whipped and beaten. Archive 2009-12-01
It's the usual squalid rock star tale of drugs, sex and overdoses.
One saw there smudgy illustrated sheets, the Police News in particular, in which vilely drawn pictures brought home to the dullest intelligence an interminable succession of squalid crimes, women murdered and put into boxes, buried under floors, old men bludgeoned at midnight by robbers, people thrust suddenly out of trains, happy lovers shot, vitrioled and so forth by rivals. Tono Bungay
Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
Through that view-medium of misfortuneof a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature deathwe view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burnss were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs
Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions.
They stepped through the low front door and found that inside the house was as vile, odious and squalid as its owner.
Vegas has been a touchstone for a while of squalid stupid behavior, and the “what happens in Vegas” catch-phrase/marketing gimmick is definitely one of those things that has national saturation. THE HANGOVER Unrated Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
Squalid public bickering was unknown to him, let alone the use of uncouth language.
Lina, with her long black coat and trousers, stands like a villain in a spaghetti western in front of an unusually squalid shooting stall at some godforsaken Moscow amusement arcade.
Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most.
Another 2.5 million people are crammed into camps that are squalid but have food and medicine. Times, Sunday Times
Like most early projects, it replaced an area of run-down, overcrowded, squalid dwellings on the fringes of the downtown area.
For further evidence, tour the purlieus of your state Capitol, contrasting the vulgar ostentation on the marbled side of the street with the squalid reality on the living side.
Grimy back alley flophouses, squalid arcades lined with girlie nickelodeons and a neon-lined skid row lend the picture an air of authenticity.
To reduce the risk of cholera, the squalid living conditions in camps need to be addressed. Joe Amon: Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera
But the Lower East Side was merely squalid-an intolerable affront to respectable folk.
They moved 14 times in under two years, each house more squalid than the last. Times, Sunday Times
The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension. January « 2008 « Bill Ayers
Danton called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail Friday night and read a statement that focused on his relationship with his estranged parents, outlining allegations of "constant physical and emotional abuse" and saying he was raised in squalid conditions. USATODAY.com - Danton issues statement denouncing family
Colombo faced international criticism about the camps because civilians were not allowed visitors or to leave, and often lived in squalid conditions. Times, Sunday Times
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
The pictures show unmade beds, a squalid sitting room and a kitchen sink piled with dirty dishes. Times, Sunday Times
The living conditions these immigrants endure are squalid, at best.
squalid, overcrowded refugee camps.
In that absence, he has remained silent, and this squalid pair will go down as mere footnotes of our collective bleak history.
Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Stip, is a squalid place. Thin wallets, fat bookshelves | Joe Sacco’s next book | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The accommodation is at best basic, but often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
POLICE raided a squalid house to find 35 people had been sharing it. The Sun
The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals.
She was determined to liquidate anyone whose presence would have brought out the squalid little truths of those war years. MOONDROP TO MURDER
O ye hapless Two, mutually extinctive, the Beautiful and the Squalid, sleep ye well, -- in the Mother's bosom that bore you both! The French Revolution
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
Those officers were'shocked' by the squalid conditions inside the building. Times, Sunday Times
As Western leaders become mired in squalid chaos, there is a noticeable lack of any honourable values shining through.
The people live in squalid dens, where there can be no health and no hope, but dogged discontent at their own lot, and futile discontent at the wealth which they see possessed by others. Photo of Jack London On The Eastside of London
One reason that employers in the United States are willing to risk employer sanctions right now and hire illegal immigrants is because they can get those illegal immigrants at less than the minimum wage, put them in squalid working conditions, subject them to subminimal working conditions and they know that those illegal immigrants are unlikely to complain. Reno Reich And Others Briefing On Illegal Immigration
The towns and villages in this region, though smaller and less prosperous than those of the free States, present an agreeable contrast to the squalid dilapidation which is everywhere visible upon the borders of the Atlantic. Inquiry into the Causes Which Have Retarded the Accumulation of Wealth and Increase of Population in the Southern States: in Which the Question of Slavery is Considered in a Politico-Economical Point of View. By a Carolinian
As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums.
For many of the young bucks in their scarlet tunics, what starts as a great imperial adventure ends in either a squalid death or captivity.
The move was designed to relieve people of the squalid living conditions, as well as to grant better access to hunting and fishing grounds.
Her cheap room was squalid. The Sun
Another 2.5 million people are crammed into camps that are squalid but have food and medicine. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures show unmade beds, a squalid sitting room and a kitchen sink piled with dirty dishes. Times, Sunday Times
The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps.
After the squalid conditions of the refugee camps even this place seems preferable.
Not to end them prematurely in some squalid crack house. The Sun
People often bathe, and sometimes even defecate, in the open, use unchlorinated water, lack hand-washing facilities and live in squalid, infrahuman conditions in a country where every day hundreds are infected with the deadly Vibrio cholera. Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Down but People Still "Abandoned Like Stray Dogs"
The reality is in the hard hearts and selfish tempers and undocile minds which, in the splendor or the squalidness of wealth, show the sad ruin of self-sufficient success, the pride of life. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little
No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty. The House of Mirth
About 120,000 of them live as internal refugees in squalid camps. Times, Sunday Times
No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty. The House of Mirth
But this is not a squalid bedsit or dingy warehouse. The Sun
In these savage fastnesses the pirates lived in squalid splendour. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
Epaminondas, therefore, the next day after his Leuctrian victory, [1967] came abroad all squalid and submiss, and gave no other reason to his friends of so doing, than that he perceived himself the day before, by reason of his good fortune, to be too insolent, overmuch joyed. Anatomy of Melancholy
Shadow Commons leader Alan Duncan and Sir Patrick Cormack urged the Government to ban the "grotty" and "squalid" row of tents from outside the Palace of Westminster. Bloggerheads
The sneak from behind the bicycle shed is preparing his most squalid betrayal of Britain yet.
Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city.
Native Americans often live in squalid conditions and are sadly lacking in adequate political action committees. Gov't offers to pay American Indians $1.4 billion for lost funds
His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes.
Conditions in the camp had been squalid, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Most of my close female single friends live in squalid flats and have difficulty scraping up the rent.
Squalid babies, with wan, pathetic faces, pullulated on the doorsteps; they showed from behind dingy windows at the breasts of haggard women. Without Prejudice
Emperor, was allowed to enter a kind of charnel-house, and to see what had been the lovely gaily-painted vellums lying squalidly piled in heaps. The Great Book-Collectors
She blamed it on the squalid three-bed semi already stinking so much. The Sun
Many prisons, even today, are overcrowded and squalid places.

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