noun
definition
Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
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Examples of squalor in a Sentence
He was delighted with the varied play of the waterfalls, but no glamour blinded him to the squalor of Swiss peasant life.
Throughout the city there is a marked absence of poverty and squalor.
She 's shocked by the sheer squalor of the place.
But they are not to do with the existing degree of private affluence and public squalor.
What's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?
We spoke to them and saw the squalor and the problems that they faced.
What 's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?
Drug problems bring untold squalor and misery to countless homes.
He worried about the materialistic nature of nineteenth-century civilization and the way in which it could create such squalor.
Living as one of the poor, London witnessed the squalor, degradation and slow starvation of the area.
Macaulay, it must be noted, exaggerated persistently the poverty of Johnson's pedigree, the squalor of his early married life, the grotesqueness of his entourage in Fleet Street, the decline and fall from complete virtue of Mrs Thrale, the novelty and success of the Dictionary, the complete failure of the Shakespeare and the political tracts.
Idleness, drunkenness, vicious intercourse, sickness, starvation, squalor, cruelty, chains, awful oppression and everywhere culpable neglect - in these words may be summed up the state of the gaols at the time of Howard's visitation.
They were somehow apart from all that, the squalor and wretchedness of her life, the constant fear of being discovered.
Firstly there is concern by myself and many other members who use the belfry that squalor has set in.
In this way, what could be urban squalor is rendered almost regal, certainly distinguished.
Am a tidy freak by nature, hate mess and she seems to like squalor.
The general squalor which I was apt to cultivate was also a symbol of revolt against Henry's standards.
When we lived in inner city squalor we hung it from the lounge window (4th floor) during Euro 2004.
In the squalor of the intensive chicken house infections spread like wildfire.
Their lives are often made worse by the moral squalor resulting from the collapse of stable family life.
Every time we lift one child above the squalor of the slums?
Beckwith visited the valleys, and was painfully struck by the squalor and ignorance of a people who had so glorious a past.