Squalid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SQUALID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• filthy, neglected
• (of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect
• showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards
• Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
• morally degraded
• foul and run-down and repulsive
• dirty and unpleasant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by filthiness caused by neglect or poverty

Words related to SQUALID

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Words that contain SQUALID

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How to use SQUALID in a sentence

• Five midshipmen stood in the squalid, ill-odored back room of a Chinese laundry in the town of Annapolis.
• As the night was beautiful, with a brilliant moon transforming the squalid city into a fantastic fairy kingdom, he went to the fair.
• Although over four miles in circumference, the city itself has a squalid, shabby appearance, not improved by the dilapidated ramparts of dried mud which surround it.
• When she woke, the daylight was creeping into the damp and squalid hut, revealing the heavy form of Mr.
• The pioneer days, with their fierce and squalid struggle for bare life, were over.
• In a fortnight the Maylies went to the country, and Oliver, whose life had been spent in squalid crowds, seemed to enter on a new existence there.
• At the foot lies the modern village, squalid but picturesque.
• In the cities the overcrowding has become so excessive, and the accomodation available for the poor is so inadequate, costly and squalid, as to almost beggar description.
• He described minutely Old Meg, her eagerness for money, and the squalid quarters in which she lived.
• The writer says that his figure is squalid and disagreeable.
• How often, and with what rapture, have amorous millionaires trodden these squalid paths! the pavements of Paris know.
• Squalid as the story is, it is full of life and movement, and has that simple directness which is essential to success.
• His birthplace was a squalid log cabin in Washington County, Kentucky.
• To him, to one placed by circumstances as he was placed, it was squalid and mean.
• We next come to a brand new spacious building divided into apartments, then a tiny house, and then the rather squalid Palazzo Martinengo.
• Giobbe, off the squalid Cannaregio which leads to Mestre and Treviso.
• It was, at best, a squalid village and a tawdry one.
• There she had left the carriage, bidding him wait for her, and had continued southward into the squalid French quarter.
• Fine gentlemen in broadcloth, ladies in silks and jewels, and beggars in squalid rags, are mingled in true Republican confusion.
• His clothes were all over squalid, the figure of his body still more shocking, being pale and emaciated.
• In a squalid room upstairs they found the man who had fired upon them.
• At first thought it seems improbable that the squalid wretches who can barely earn sous enough to live on, to whom fifty cents a day are fine wages, should have a ball.
• Here is an extract in which he describes the squalid conditions under which he passed some of his life as a woodsman and surveyor.
• I marvelled if he was not making for the Rue Daunou, where was situated the squalid tavern of ill-fame which he was wont to frequent.
• The priest turned his face down it, and Lorison walked with him through a squalid district, where the houses loomed, awry and desolate-looking, high above them.
• No writer has pictured more scenes of squalid misery, and yet we are not depressed.

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