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Meanings of more squalid in English

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Usage of more squalid in English
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The more squalid the people, the more reason there was for going.
A History of the Moravian Church
2
Guston was a painter of brute matter and even more squalid inclinations.
The Guardian
3
A more squalid hovel Granville Kelmscott had never even conceived as possible.
What's Bred in the Bone
4
She had imagined something more squalid, something grown greasy through years of neglect.
A reliable wife
5
This was, if anything, dirtier and more squalid than the first and second.
The Young Musician; Or, Fighting His Way
6
He couldn't imagine anything more squalid than a subsistence on the three commodities mentioned.
Her Weight in Gold
7
Nothing more squalid than ink ever enters their gates.
Your United States: Impressions of a first visit
8
It was simply shelter, less comfortable than the hotel, and within a few days more squalid.
Alas, Babylon
9
Manchester in its worst streets is more squalid, more haphazard, more nakedly poor even than London.
The History of David Grieve
10
Each foot of the way the houses seemed to grow more squalid looking, and the streets filthier.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking
11
Now and then she espied dilapidated log cabins and surroundings even more squalid than the ruined forest.
The Call of the Canyon
12
The house was even more squalid than Peace had pictured it, and the woman's case more desperate.
The Lilac Lady
13
Can you imagine anything more squalid than an Immortality at the beck and call of Eusapia Palladino?
Notes on Life & Letters
14
The home life in Ireland is probably more squalid than with any other people equally prosperous in Europe.
Imaginations and Reveries
15
The people are more squalid, the houses more wretched: the very mosque itself is in a dirty, tumble-down condition.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
16
But the girls who were sitting on the hard benches by the table were still more squalid and dreary-looking.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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