Squalid

Examples

• It opened on to a squalid courtyard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was still ragged and squalid, but his face was not quite so hollow as on his first meeting with Mr. Pickwick, a few days before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In squalid garret, on Monday morning Maternity awakes, to hear children weeping for bread. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When this was told to the sender far away in the squalid little town of Medina, he was very angry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Poverty, dirt, and squalid misery characterized its appearance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is the man who is called by Carlyle rabid dog, atrocious, squalid, and Dog-leech--this last by way of tribute to his science. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Great towns of squalid houses came into existence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The splendid opening of the story of Islam collapses suddenly into this squalid dispute and bickering of heirs and widows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He looked very good-natured and prepossessing, though overpoweringly gay and free, in contrast with the squalid prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But the powers of love, poetry, and creative fancy will dwell even beside the sick of the plague, with the squalid, and with the dying. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yet why should I not remain thus, I thought; the world is dead, and this squalid attire is a fitter mourning garb than the foppery of a black suit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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