squalid
11squalid — adjective 1 dirty and unpleasant because of a lack of care or money: How can anyone live in such squalid conditions? | a tiny squalid apartment 2 involving low moral standards or dishonesty; sordid (1): a squalid tale of sex and corruption see… …
12squalid — UK [ˈskwɒlɪd] / US [ˈskwɑlɪd] adjective 1) a place that is squalid is dirty and unpleasant the squalid conditions in the camp 2) something that is squalid is unpleasant because it involves dishonest, illegal, or immoral behaviour …
13squalid — adjective 1) a squalid prison Syn: dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, foul, vile, poor, sorry, wretched, miserable, mean, seedy, shabby, sordid, insalubrious; neglected …
14squalid — adjective /ˈskwɒlɪd/ a) Extremely dirty and unpleasant. A squalid attempt to buy votes. b) Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards …
15squalid — adj. Squalid is used with these nouns: ↑affair, ↑condition, ↑tenement …
16squalid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. filthy, dirty, foul, sordid, repulsive, wretched, degraded. See uncleanness, ugliness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. dirty, filthy, unclean, poor, poverty stricken, mean, grimy, soiled, foul, reeking …
17squalid — adjective 1》 extremely dirty and unpleasant. 2》 showing a contemptible lack of moral standards: a squalid attempt to buy votes. Derivatives squalidly adverb squalidness noun Origin C16: from L. squalidus, from squalere be rough or dirty …
18squalid — [ˈskwɒlɪd] adj a place that is squalid is dirty and unpleasant …
19squalid — adjective Etymology: Latin squalidus rough, dirty, from squalēre to be covered with scales or dirt, from squalus dirty; perhaps akin to Latin squama scale Date: 1596 1. marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty 2. sordid… …
20squalid — squalidly, adv. squalidness, squalidity /skwo lid i tee/, n. /skwol id, skwaw lid/, adj. 1. foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy. 2. wretched; miserable; degraded; sordid. [1585 95; < L squalidus dirty,… …
