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Meanings of squalor in English

Portuguese
esqualidez
Spanish
inmundicia

Sordid dirtiness.

        esqualidez
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        Examples for "sordidness"
        1
        For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
        The Lion's Share
        2
        The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
        Moby Dick
        3
        This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
        Anarchism and Other Essays
        4
        But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness.
        Mushrooms on the Moor
        5
        There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        1
        Her visits blotted out the squalidness of that shithole for days after she left.
        Beat the reaper: a novel
        2
        He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all.
        Martin Eden
        3
        It is for waging implacable war against poverty and squalidness.
        Socialism As It Is / A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Mo...
        4
        In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness.
        Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
        5
        There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness.
        Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
        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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