squalor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
squalor (uncountable)
- Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
- Synonyms: squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity
- 2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore)
- We’re living in squalor
That’s the name of this house
This house is called squalor by all
There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
- We’re living in squalor
- 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays
- The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House Chapter XII
- bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
- French: saleté repoussante, conditions misérables
- German: Schmutz, Elend, Vernachlässigung, Ärmlichkeit, Dreck, Verschmutzung, Unreinheit, Verderbtheit, Verkommenheit
- Portuguese: esqualidez, esqualor
- Russian: грязь
- Spanish: miseria, inmundicia
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