Both Uses of
squalid
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- 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.†
Chpt 1.5
- In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress.†
Chpt 2.22 *
Definition:
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(squalid) dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral