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Definition

dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral

She lives in a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town.

squalid = dirty and unpleasant

I want to get away from this squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal.

squalid = immoral

She was raised in the squalid living conditions of an overcrowded refugee camp.

squalid = dirty and unpleasant

From the kitchen, I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report in the livingroom on the squalid lives of the Mrunas, it sounded like to me.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

squalid = dirty and unpleasant

And home was as squalid psychically as physically.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

squalid = dirty and unpleasant

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

squalid = unpleasant

  So absurd an essence,
  That something, which is not,
  Nevertheless should populate
  Empty night more solidly
  Than that with which we copulate,
  Why should it seem so squalidly?
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

squalidly = dirty or unpleasant in a moral sense

I stepped back to survey the remains of the shattering moment, the scene of squalid violence and lonely death at the shadowy fringes of society.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
The sprawling camps of humans were just ahead, filthy and squalid.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
In the last light of the day, the outskirts of Port-au-Prince look the same to me as on every previous trip, chaotic, squalid, broken-down.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
What squalid specters, in the dead of night, Break my short sleep, and skim before my sight!
Virgil -- The Aeneid
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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
I, he said, was this man's intimate friend and associate; in fact, the whole background of the crime was of the most squalid description.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
The negress was clad in squalid European garments.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Lit by a small window that gave upon the squalid grey bricks of an airshaft, the room was gloomy.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by the shade.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

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