Squalid Definition

skwŏlĭd
adjective
Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care.
American Heritage
Foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions.
Webster's New World
Wretched; miserable; sordid.
Webster's New World
Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
A squalid attempt to buy votes.
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noun

(zoology) Any member of the Squalidae.

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Other Word Forms of Squalid

Noun

Singular:
squalid
Plural:
squalids

Origin of Squalid

  • Latin squālidus from squālēre to be filthy from squālus filthy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin squalidus, from squalere "˜be rough or dirty'.

    From Wiktionary

Squalid Sentence Examples

  • Here are squalid streets and mean houses typical of the poorest class of inhabitants.

  • The modern er-Riha is a poor squalid village of, it is estimated, about 300 inhabitants.

  • Brady watched the feds, irritated at the pockets of elite unaffected by the squalid conditions the non-elite were forced to live in.

  • Many squalid districts, however, have been improved away to make room for new thoroughfares and handsome buildings.

  • He died of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire in his tiny, squalid one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

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Words Starting With

SSQSQU

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DIDLID

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