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Another word for squalid

Adjective

  1. Heavily soiled; very dirty or unclean

    2. See also:

    clean

  2. Having or proceeding from low moral standards

    3. See also:

    right

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Sentence Examples

  • The modern er-Riha is a poor squalid village of, it is estimated, about 300 inhabitants.

  • Here are squalid streets and mean houses typical of the poorest class of inhabitants.

  • Many squalid districts, however, have been improved away to make room for new thoroughfares and handsome buildings.

  • Brady watched the feds, irritated at the pockets of elite unaffected by the squalid conditions the non-elite were forced to live in.

  • He took refuge in a mountain fortress called Pappua on the Numidian frontier, and there, after enduring great hardships in the squalid dwellings of the Moors, surrendered to his pursuers in March 534.

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