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Meanings of squalid in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
1
Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
3
Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
4
But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
1
In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
1
He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
1
But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
5
Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
Usage of squalid in английском
1
I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
6
Squeezed between squalid living conditions and falling wages, Glasgow's workers fought back.
7
Conditions in detention centers in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
8
There was barely standing-room in it beside the filthy and squalid bed.
9
So the general appearance of a Chinese town is squalid and tumbledown.
10
Marnie had its moments and Frenzy was a squalid return to form.
11
The squalid drama with the same actors evidently had been played before.
12
All before her and alongside lay the squalid environs of the town.
13
The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances.
14
The more squalid the people, the more reason there was for going.
15
Because it and the Labour Party were at the same squalid business.
16
Staying hidden in that squalid room had made him wretched and homesick.
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Squalid across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common