(n.) The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
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.
(1) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(2) Let us not forget that returning veterans of the "war to end all wars were promised a "land fit for heroes", yet what they got post-1918 was poverty, squalor, unemployment and, after a short lull, more war.
(3) In his last annual report the former chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick described the jails he had inspected as “places of violence, squalor and idleness” and said that English and Welsh prisons were in their “ worst state in 10 years”.
(4) Meanwhile, thousands of Haitians displaced by the disaster continue to live in makeshift housing, squalor and destitution.
(5) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(6) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(7) The picture you have painted is one of abject squalor made worse by a generally lazy approach to hygiene.
(8) Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes Read more Labour councils, responding to the squalor and overcrowding of Victorian and Edwardian cities, and the graphic failure of private landlords and developers to deal with it – indeed the glee with which some of them exploited it – had constructed much of Britain’s early municipal housing in the 1900s.
(9) Several of the stories in For Esmé – with Love and Squalor draw on Salinger's wartime experiences.
(10) One of the first guests was the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith , best known for his critique of private affluence amid public squalor.
(11) One critic described Clark's photographic technique as 'drawing you into the moral void of gorgeously sensuous squalor'.
(12) She moved between the family home, doss houses and the street in a perpetual quest for the next hit, encountering squalor and prostitution.
(13) Their 700-page Salinger biography also features many rare photographs and letters; unprecedented detail about the author's World War II years and brief first marriage; a revelatory interview with Jean Miller, who inspired his classic story For Esme With Love and Squalor; and an account of how Salinger, who supposedly shunned Hollywood for much of his life, nearly agreed to allow Esme to be adapted into a film.
(14) Want was tackled through a cradle-to-grave welfare state; ignorance through the tripartite education system (grammar schools, secondary moderns and technical colleges); idleness through the commitment to full employment; disease via the creation of the NHS and squalor through a programme of mass house-building and higher standards of provision.
(15) According to the UN, there are now 3,000 refugees camped in squalor and poverty in and around the port .
(16) But the occasion is charged with passion and humour - a tribute night to Joe's main inspiration, Woody Guthrie; just one of the multifarious influences that flowed like tributaries into the river, the phenomenon of music, psychedelic drugs, politics, anti-politics, art, sex, rebellion, celebration, squalor and calamity that rushed through the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco 40 years ago to reach what was for some the revolution's climax, and for others its nadir and moment of dissipation during the Summer of Love in 1967.
(17) Rapid population growth and industrialization were accompanied in Great Britain by the displacement of surplus population from the countryside and the appearance of widespread urban overpopulation, impoverishment, and squalor, consequences of uncontrolled fertility and declining mortality.
(18) What is the Jewish response to hearing that thousands are living in squalor just a few miles away?
(19) They thrive in our squalor, making homes of our sewers, abandoned alleys, and neglected parks.
(20) I’ve been to places that have areas approximate to it – Gaza, or refugee camps in Jordan – but I’ve never, never, never been to a place of such squalor, where human beings have been so deliberately degraded.