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usually uncountable, plural squalors
Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty quotations examples
We’re living in squalorThat’s the name of this houseThis house is called squalor by allThere’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore)
The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays
bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XII”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853