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To meet her today, you would never guess she lived in squalor as a child.squalor = extremely dirty and unpleasant living conditions
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While my living conditions are not what I would like, they are far better than the kind of squalor I read of in Charles Dickens novels.
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Our generation does not know the squalor of our great grandparents' generation.
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She felt hypnotized by the squalor but Marta and her mother didn't seem the least bit embarrassed. (source)
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He looked as if he'd been holding that posture for some time, contemplating the squalor. (source)
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Out there in J. Grimes Everett's land there's nothing but sin and squalor. (source)squalor = dirtiness and unpleasantness
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The squalor had at last reached its fingers into Emerald Drive itself, and the once-celebrated promenade was now indistinguishable from the scum-heavy streets around it. (source)squalor = dirtiness and unpleasantness
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He would have preferred a more congenial spot, but, as usually happens, in place of a romantic field or solemn aisle for his tale, it was told while they walked up and down over a floor littered with rotten cabbage-leaves, and amid all the usual squalors of decayed vegetable matter and unsaleable refuse.† (source)squalors = things that are extremely dirty and unpleasant
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Inside in that squalor? Why, I'll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows. (source)squalor = an extremely dirty and unpleasant place
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Existence becomes a grinding effort, guided by belly-hunger and the almost desperate need to divert awareness from the squalors to the pleasures, to lose oneself in sex or drink or dope or gut-religion or gluttony or the incoherence of falsity; and in some instances in the higher pleasures of music, art, literature, though these usually deepen perceptions rather than dull them, and can be unbearable; they present a world that is ordered, sane, disciplined to felicity, and the contrast of that world to theirs increases the pain of theirs.† (source)squalors = things that are extremely dirty and unpleasant
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"Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it, in one form or another, all the time, (source)Squalor = filth -- especially a place that is extremely dirty and unpleasant
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The young man had known the horrors of its most primitive housekeeping, and the dreary squalor of that level of society which does not rebel at the companionship of hens. (source)
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Think of the squalor!† (source)squalor = extremely dirty and unpleasant living conditions
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She was like a hostess embarrassed in front of her guests by the squalor of her home, the untidiness of her children.† (source)
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Harry glanced back at Hermione with a reassuring smile, but he was not sure she had seen it; she stood hugging herself in the midst of the candlelit squalor, looking toward the bookcase.† (source)
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Farther south, the town descended into a vast, low-lying marshland of working-class houses, mobile homes, shanties, Fort Gordon army base, and a backwoods thoroughfare made famous by Erskine Caldwell as a symbol of rural squalor—Tobacco Road.† (source)
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