What's the difference between reechy and squalid?

Reechy


Definition:

  • (a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.

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Squalid


Definition:

  • (a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
  • (2) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (3) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
  • (4) Yesterday, all 12 GPs at a hospital in northern Greece quit their jobs to protest the squalid conditions in which they were forced to work as a result of repeated cuts.
  • (5) The transformation of the North Sea billions into tax cuts for the wealthy is the same process but at its most squalid.
  • (6) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
  • (7) Thousands of citizens have been forgotten in this squalid area, remaining here for more than four years.
  • (8) An investigation into gastrointestinal helminthiasis in human and dog population of the Kainji Lake area revealed a high prevalence of helminthiasis which may be due to lack of adequate health and veterinary facilities; crowdiness and squalid environment.
  • (9) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
  • (10) The awarding of the World Cup to Qatar has proved hugely controversial, particularly the treatment of the thousands of foreign workers , mainly from south Asian nations, many of whom have been put up in squalid accommodation, had their pay withheld or delayed, and their passports confiscated.
  • (11) Since the closure of the Macedonian border, more than 40,000 refugees have been trapped in squalid conditions in Greece.
  • (12) Social care is in crisis, leaving half a million frail old people with no care at all, while others get notoriously perfunctory 15-minute home visits or often squalid residential care.
  • (13) Up to 2,000 people, including children as young as eight, sought shelter in the informal camp Jamshid and Mati are staying in, made up of a cluster of squalid warehouses behind Belgrade’s main train station.
  • (14) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (15) But in the end they settled for a squalid little deal stitched up behind closed doors .
  • (16) Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments Read more I’m talking to Howard Bamsey, who I’ve encountered at many of these events – he was Australia’s lead negotiator in Kyoto in 1997 when the protocol was agreed as well as the special envoy on climate change in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (17) There are more than 100,000 Roma in Italy and roughly 8,000 of them live in squalid conditions on the outskirts of Rome in authorised camps that have been compared to segregated ghettoes.
  • (18) It is unseemly and squalid, after unanswered Greek requests for the marbles’ return, for the statue’s first move outside Britain to be to a country we ourselves have placed under sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine.
  • (19) Their loved ones, sitting in court, heard survivors recall the terror and horror of being trapped between the iron railings of the squalid Leppings Lane terrace: the vomiting, faces turning blue, screams for help ignored by police, the cracking of ribs, evacuation of bowels and bladders, the public deaths.
  • (20) A series of investigations have found migrant workers, who make up more than 80% of Qatar’s population, living in squalid conditions with many toiling for low wages to pay back loans from unscrupulous recruitment agencies in their country of origin.

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