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Meanings of squalor in English
Portuguese
esqualidez Spanish
inmundicia Synonyms
Examples for "sordidness"
Examples for "sordidness"
1
For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
2
The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
3
This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
4
But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness.
5
There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
1
Her visits blotted out the squalidness of that shithole for days after she left.
2
He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all.
3
It is for waging implacable war against poverty and squalidness.
4
In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness.
5
There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness.
Usage of squalor in English
1
The squalor in public places is not due just to official neglect.
2
As if he wanted to protect their relationship from all the squalor.
3
As varied as the land itself, from lush countryside to city squalor.
4
The spectacle of his secret squalor would have desolated the old lady.
5
The hopeless squalor of it at times had driven him almost mad.
6
The Vietnam war in all its squalor is revisited with satiric panache.
7
Other viewers were shocked by the urban squalor and poverty in Tirupur.
8
And the precious minutes slipped away, and Jacky and squalor came nearer.
9
But the town showed a dead level of mean ugliness and squalor.
10
The whole place was pervaded by a smell of long prevalent squalor.
11
Had he been born in squalor, he would have emerged a gentleman.
12
But it also became a two-nation city, polarised between affluence and squalor.
13
Why do they continue to live in such squalor and in bondage?
14
Throughout the squalor of her homeward drive-shespoke at once-his salutation remained.
15
While the bosses built luxury homes, most of Lucapa lived in squalor.
16
The squalor of the shack was beginning to get to him, too.
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Squalor through the time
Squalor across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common