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Meanings of squalor in English

Portuguese
esqualidez
Spanish
inmundicia

Sordid dirtiness.

esqualidez
Usage of squalor in English
1
The squalor in public places is not due just to official neglect.
The Irish Times
2
As if he wanted to protect their relationship from all the squalor.
Arctic chill
3
As varied as the land itself, from lush countryside to city squalor.
Honour This Day
4
The spectacle of his secret squalor would have desolated the old lady.
The Price of Love
5
The hopeless squalor of it at times had driven him almost mad.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
6
The Vietnam war in all its squalor is revisited with satiric panache.
The Irish Times
7
Other viewers were shocked by the urban squalor and poverty in Tirupur.
Reuters
8
And the precious minutes slipped away, and Jacky and squalor came nearer.
Howards End
9
But the town showed a dead level of mean ugliness and squalor.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
10
The whole place was pervaded by a smell of long prevalent squalor.
A Love Episode
11
Had he been born in squalor, he would have emerged a gentleman.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 / A Magaz...
12
But it also became a two-nation city, polarised between affluence and squalor.
The Guardian
13
Why do they continue to live in such squalor and in bondage?
Blue Ridge Country
14
Throughout the squalor of her homeward drive-shespoke at once-his salutation remained.
A Room with a View
15
While the bosses built luxury homes, most of Lucapa lived in squalor.
Reuters
16
The squalor of the shack was beginning to get to him, too.
A beautiful place to die
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