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squalor

[ UK /skwˈɒlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈskwɑɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. sordid dirtiness

How To Use squalor In A Sentence

  • Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
  • But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
  • Perhaps it was her upbringing in the slums of Dundee, where squalor and drunkenness were a sad part of daily life, that made her more able to cope.
  • The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley. William Shakespeare
  • It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
  • It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
  • From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more. Miscellanies
  • They are often criticized for producing "poverty porn" for Western audiences; their detractors call their - oeuvre the "cinema of squalor" — a label Philippine critic Lito Zulueta decries as unfair. Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away
  • Last year's Nobel Prize winner gives us the horror and the squalor, the dislocation and the dread that are the legacy of empire.
  • It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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