3 uses
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Definition
dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral
- In squalid corridors crippled beggars vie with half-dressed prostitutes and drug peddlers in the eerie wash of naked bulbs that hang from exposed wires along the stone walls.Chapter 10 (51% in)
- The squalid hotel he had managed to find had no such conveniences as a telephone.Chapter 30 (40% in)
- He wandered the squalid streets of the Yau Ma Ti, his prisoner in tow, wrists still in traction, finding what he wanted to find, paying thousands of dollars for items worth a fraction of the amounts paid.Chapter 31 (32% in)
There are no more uses of "squalid" in The Bourne Supremacy.
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