Squalor Definition

skwŏlər
noun
The quality or condition of being squalid; filth and wretchedness.
Webster's New World

Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

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Other Word Forms of Squalor

Noun

Singular:
squalor
Plural:
squalors

Origin of Squalor

  • Latin squālor from squālēre to be filthy squalid

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

  • From the Latin squalor.

    From Wiktionary

Squalor Sentence Examples

  • He was delighted with the varied play of the waterfalls, but no glamour blinded him to the squalor of Swiss peasant life.

  • Throughout the city there is a marked absence of poverty and squalor.

  • But they are not to do with the existing degree of private affluence and public squalor.

  • What's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?

  • She 's shocked by the sheer squalor of the place.

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Words Starting With

SSQSQU

Words Ending With

RORLOR

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