Squalor
['skwɒlə] or ['skwɔlɚ]
Definition
(n.) Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L.] Foulness, SQUALIDNESS.
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Examples
- Squalor and poverty are the pride of Tiberias. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were the same squalor, the same turmoil and noise, the same general characteristics, in every corner; in the best and the worst alike. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood-stained magnificence, and moral squalor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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