All 3 Uses
squalid
in
Brideshead Revisited
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- Seeping through the squalid air of the police station, the sour smell of dirt and disinfectant, came the sweet, rich smoke of a Havana cigar—of two Havana cigars, for the sergeant in charge was smoking also.†
p. 133.9
- Oh, Charles, what a squalid wedding!†
p. 228.3
- Well, no one can ever resist going to see her own present, so that was quite a success, but the reception Rex gave next day at the Savoy for the wedding guests was very squalid.†
p. 229.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(squalid) dirty and unpleasant; or (more rarely) immoral
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)