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comparative squalider, superlative squalidest
Extremely dirty and unpleasant. quotations examples
[...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.
1686, The Refin'd Courtier, or a Correction of several indecencies crept into civil conversation., London: Matthew Gilliflower
Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards. examples
plural squalids
(zoology) Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks. quotations
Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods […]
2008, David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates, page 126