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Definition
(describing a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant — typically due to poverty
- Most ladies would have laughed, but Margaret really minded, for it gave her a glimpse into squalor.Chapter 5 (31% in)
- She feared, fantastically, that her own little flock might be moving into turmoil and squalor, into nearer contact with such episodes as these.Chapter 13 (96% in)
- Petulance and squalor were enough.Chapter 14 (78% in)
- And the precious minutes slipped away, and Jacky and squalor came nearer.Chapter 16 (32% in)
- Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us, and strengthen the wings of love.Chapter 41 (91% in)
- Let Squalor be turned into Tragedy, whose eyes are the stars, and whose hands hold the sunset and the dawn.Chapter 43 (20% in)
There are no more uses of "squalor" in Howards End.
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