Example Sentences

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Lloyd George called it a "war budget" – raising money to "wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness".

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010

Notwithstanding their squalidness, it is surprising that they are very far from being uncultivated in their morals.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

As Marcia sat in her dressing-room before the mirror which was fastened against a brick wall, the squalidness of the cubbyhole ceased to depress her.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville

Fine gentlemen in broad cloth, ladies in silks and jewels, and beggars in squalidness and rags, are mingled here in true Republican confusion.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

It is, in truth, a wild impressive place, full of beauty and terror, and with none of the squalidness of the mere dungeon about it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various