All 3 Uses of
squalid
in
Brave New World
- And home was as squalid psychically as physically.
p. 37..7 *squalid = dirty and 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?
p. 181..9squalidly = dirty or unpleasant in a moral sense
- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
p. 221..5squalid = unpleasant
Definition:
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(squalid) dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral