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Significados de squalid em inglês

Morally degraded.

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Foul and run-down and repulsive.

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Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
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Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
The Irish Times
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The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
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Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
The Irish Times
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But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
NY Magazine
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
An Inland Voyage
1
In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
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The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
The Beast Within
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
The new yorker
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
I'll never get out of this world alive
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
Monday Mourning
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He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
Storm Front
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Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
Raging Heat
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In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
The Guardian
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
Abaddon's Gate
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
Etiquette
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But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
The Irish Times
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
Uso de squalid em 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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