Squalor
noun
A state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.
He grew up in squalor, barely having enough to eat or a clean place to sleep.
Often appears as...
- live in squalor
- grow up in squalor
noun
A state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.
He grew up in squalor, barely having enough to eat or a clean place to sleep.
Often appears as...
- live in squalor
- grow up in squalor
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Squalor suggests negative, undesirable conditions often resulting from neglect or poverty.
The abandoned building was a picture of squalor.
Pro Tip 2/3Poverty Indicator
Squalor is commonly associated with the living conditions of the extremely poor.
Charity workers were appalled by the squalor in the slums.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word squalor can evoke strong emotions such as pity or disgust, be sensitive when using it.
The documentary highlighted the squalor endured by homeless families.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Squalor suggests negative, undesirable conditions often resulting from neglect or poverty.
The abandoned building was a picture of squalor.
Pro Tip 2/3Poverty Indicator
Squalor is commonly associated with the living conditions of the extremely poor.
Charity workers were appalled by the squalor in the slums.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word squalor can evoke strong emotions such as pity or disgust, be sensitive when using it.
The documentary highlighted the squalor endured by homeless families.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Squalor suggests negative, undesirable conditions often resulting from neglect or poverty.
The abandoned building was a picture of squalor.
Pro Tip 2/3Poverty Indicator
Squalor is commonly associated with the living conditions of the extremely poor.
Charity workers were appalled by the squalor in the slums.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word squalor can evoke strong emotions such as pity or disgust, be sensitive when using it.
The documentary highlighted the squalor endured by homeless families.
Compare with
degradationdirtyfilthinessgrimemiserypovertyshabbinesswretch
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Video examples
Alison Wright: Portraits...
just living in absolute squalor this woman sadly had saved up enough money to send her daughter back to burma and she drowned the first week that she got back so she was just lighting these incense for her daughter when I met her I asked these refugees they said look at this squalor that they live in I'm like how
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Chinaka Hodge: What will...
what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?
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Giving situations new...
Heaven's for criminality crime drug abuse prostitution pollution squalor all those negative things you can imagine on account of these labels authorities use them as justification to demolish the
Video examples
Alison Wright: Portraits...
just living in absolute squalor this woman sadly had saved up enough money to send her daughter back to burma and she drowned the first week that she got back so she was just lighting these incense for her daughter when I met her I asked these refugees they said look at this squalor that they live in I'm like how
Video examples
Chinaka Hodge: What will...
what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?
Video examples
Giving situations new...
Heaven's for criminality crime drug abuse prostitution pollution squalor all those negative things you can imagine on account of these labels authorities use them as justification to demolish the
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Quote examples
Richard Corliss
American Writer
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.
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Sharan Burrow
Welsh Activist
What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.
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Jeremy Kyle
English Journalist
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.
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Diablo Cody
American Writer
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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King Princess
American Musician
There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.
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Andrei Platonov
Russian Writer
We hate our squalor.
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Richard Corliss
American Writer
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.
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Sharan Burrow
Welsh Activist
What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.
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Jeremy Kyle
English Journalist
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
Quote examples
Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.
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Diablo Cody
American Writer
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
Quote examples
John W. Gardner
American Educator
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
Quote examples
King Princess
American Musician
There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.
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Andrei Platonov
Russian Writer
We hate our squalor.
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