Squalid Synonyms and Antonyms

skwŏlĭd
Having or proceeding from low moral standards
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sordid
  2. base
  3. ignoble
  4. low
  5. low-down
  6. flyblown
  7. mean
  8. vile
Antonyms:
  1. rich
  2. pleasant
  3. kept-up
  4. good
  5. clean
Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dirty

Words Related to Squalid

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. right
  2. hovel
  3. insanitary
  4. unsanitary
  5. rat-infested
  6. squalor
  7. disease-ridden
  8. cramped

Squalid Sentence Examples

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

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

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

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

  • He died of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire in his tiny, squalid one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

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