Both Uses of
squalor
in
The Looking Glass Wars
- Imagining themselves in the bright, crystal world Alyss described, with heart palaces, walrus-butlers, frog-messengers, and giant, pipe-smoking caterpillars, they were able to escape for a short while from the poverty and squalor and daily scrounging of their own lives.
p. 111.9squalor = dirtiness and unpleasantness
- The squalor had at last reached its fingers into Emerald Drive itself, and the once-celebrated promenade was now indistinguishable from the scum-heavy streets around it.
p. 294.5 *
Definition:
(describing a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant -- typically due to poverty