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Meanings of squalid in inglês

Morally degraded.

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Foul and run-down and repulsive.

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Examples for "flyblown"
Examples for "flyblown"
1
The blood around the flyblown wound was congealed but not completely dry.
Tough customer: a novel
2
The ground floor consisted of a little Italian restaurant, of the flyblown sort.
A Set of Six
3
On the walls were faded oleographs of generals and archbishops, flyblown and stained.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
4
Valle Crusis has a blacksmith shop and a dirty, flyblown store.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
5
A fellow gets flyblown if he stays in the field, so I beat it.
Rainbow's End
Usage of squalid in inglês
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I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
The Naked God
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Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
Reuters
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Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
Reuters
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Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
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The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
The new yorker
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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...
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Conditions in detention centers in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
Reuters
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There was barely standing-room in it beside the filthy and squalid bed.
France in the Nineteenth Century
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So the general appearance of a Chinese town is squalid and tumbledown.
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
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Marnie had its moments and Frenzy was a squalid return to form.
The Irish Times
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The squalid drama with the same actors evidently had been played before.
The Precipice: A Novel
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All before her and alongside lay the squalid environs of the town.
The Call of the Canyon
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The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances.
Godolphin, Volume 1.
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The more squalid the people, the more reason there was for going.
A History of the Moravian Church
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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
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