Term Gallery logo

Meanings of squalid in anglès

Morally degraded.

Related terms

Foul and run-down and repulsive.

Related terms
Usage of squalid in anglès
1
I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
The Naked God
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
Reuters
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
Reuters
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
The new yorker
6
Squeezed between squalid living conditions and falling wages, Glasgow's workers fought back.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
7
Conditions in detention centers in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
8
There was barely standing-room in it beside the filthy and squalid bed.
France in the Nineteenth Century
9
So the general appearance of a Chinese town is squalid and tumbledown.
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
10
Marnie had its moments and Frenzy was a squalid return to form.
The Irish Times
11
The squalid drama with the same actors evidently had been played before.
The Precipice: A Novel
12
All before her and alongside lay the squalid environs of the town.
The Call of the Canyon
13
The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances.
Godolphin, Volume 1.
14
The more squalid the people, the more reason there was for going.
A History of the Moravian Church
15
Because it and the Labour Party were at the same squalid business.
The Irish Times
16
Staying hidden in that squalid room had made him wretched and homesick.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win
About this term
More collocations
Squalid through the time
Squalid across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common