squalor in English

noun

1

a state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.

they lived in squalor and disease

synonyms: dirt, filth, grubbiness, grime, muck, foulness, vileness, poverty, wretchedness, meanness, seediness, shabbiness, sordidness, sleaziness, neglect, decay, dilapidation, scruffiness, crumminess, grunge, rattiness

noun

• dirt, filth, grubbiness, grime, muck, foulness, vileness, poverty, wretchedness, meanness, seediness, shabbiness, sordidness, sleaziness, neglect, decay, dilapidation, scruffiness, crumminess, grunge, rattiness
• sordidness, squalidness

Use "squalor" in a sentence

1. I prefer stories about squalor.

2. 8 Their squalor and wretchedness have sickened me.

3. 13 A place of extreme wretchedness or squalor.

4. Their squalor and wretchedness have sickened me.

5. There is indescribable squalor in those books.

6. An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.

7. But there was solace as well as squalor.

8. 16 An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.

9. It was a mixture of squalor and magnificence.

10. He was out of work and living in squalor.

11. He was born in squalor next to London's docks.

12. Barbarians were, well, Barbarians: incestuous, uncouth, living amidst squalor

13. I began to feel sentimental about the familiar squalor.

14. Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.

15. Outside the walls, squalor and pollution abound in the streets.

16. 5 Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.

17. We lived in squalor for a year and a half.

18. He had lost his job and was living in squalor.

19. The bohemian squalor that greeted my eyes was quite appealing.

20. Yet beneath the percussive noise, you sense the conflict's essential squalor.

21. It was a dirty, damp, smelly flat - the usual student squalor.

22. Some people are living in squalor, with just a tarp tied to a chainlink fence.

23. The women knew too much; they weren't protected from ugliness and squalor.

24. Two families decided to stay put and continued to live alongside the squalor.

25. What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.

26. It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.

27. Synonyms for Abjectness include destitution, hopelessness, misery, squalor, forlornness, pitiableness, pitifulness, wretchedness, degradation and dishonor

28. Others have developed a sort of domestic hyper-realism, seeking out the squalor of everyday life.

29. And despite the government's attempts to hide the truth, the squalor that followed poverty was too desperate to hide.

30. This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy.

31. It tells the story of an Aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street

32. In their view, the poverty, squalor and ignorance in which many people lived made it impossible for freedom and individuality to flourish.

33. Just as the slums, squalor and muddle of towns and cities could be overcome by planning, so could social evils.

34. Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor, broken marriages, homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system.

35. Although the Industrial Revolution brought wealth to the city, it also brought poverty and squalor to a large part of the population.

36. / ˈæf.lu.əns / the state of having a lot of money or owning many things: What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private Affluence and public squalor

37. ‘The principal reason for attacking this theory was that it Beclouded the whole issue of man's relationship to the land.’ ‘Eden, a young aspiring poet, a ‘mapmaker’, who wants to become the successor of Hughes and Baldwin, arrives in Paris in September 1986 only to have the decay and squalor of her surroundings becloud her illusions.’