Both Uses
squalid
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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- When his way homeward led him again into the street of frame houses he could not bear the sight and began to run, wanting to get quickly out of the neighborhood that now seemed to him utterly squalid and commonplace.†
Chpt 16 *
- He thought, after what he had seen of the women standing before the squalid houses on cold nights and the look he had seen in the eyes of the men who stopped to talk to them, that he would put sex altogether out of his own life.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(squalid) dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)