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squalid
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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)
  • 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)
  • This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes.  (source)
    squalid = unpleasant (possibly repulsive)
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  • Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.  (source)
    squalid = unpleasant
  • 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.
  • 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
  • I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage.†  (source)
  • It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • He was down the hall in a squalid hole like Louie's.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.†  (source)
  • I don't exempt myself: I relish these grubby little sins, these squalid family tangles, these cherished traumas.†  (source)
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