All 4 Uses
squalid
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.†
Chpt 2 *
- After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels.†
Chpt 3
- The squalid scene composed itself around him; the common accents, the burning gas-jets in the shops, odours of fish and spirits and wet sawdust, moving men and women.†
Chpt 3
- His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul, festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(squalid) dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)