Sample Sentences forsqualid (editor-reviewed)
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She lives in a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town.squalid = dirty and unpleasant
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I want to get away from this squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal.squalid = immoral
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She was raised in the squalid living conditions of an overcrowded refugee camp.squalid = dirty and unpleasant
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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. (source)
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She was standing beside a steaming pot on a grimy black stove, and was fiddling around with the shelf of squalid-looking pots and pans above it. (source)
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. (source)squalid = unpleasant
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This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. (source)squalid = unpleasant (possibly repulsive)
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Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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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? (source)squalidly = dirty or unpleasant in a moral sense
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He was down the hall in a squalid hole like Louie's.† (source)
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It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.† (source)
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Now, since I, being a nobleman, am in the secret too, think how tedious to me must be your unending cant about all these moralistic figments, and how squalidly disastrous your sacrifice of your lives to them!† (source)
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I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage.† (source)
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It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding; I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around and saw the barred windows and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory and I groaned bitterly.† (source)
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It's a strange sight in that squalid room, like a rose in a junkyard.† (source)
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Well, here's one of the wonders, he told himself, gazing about the squalid, foul-smelling hall.† (source)
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