单词 | squalor |
释义 | squalorn. 1. a. The state or condition of being physically squalid; a combination of misery and dirt. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness squalor1621 sorditude1623 sordidness1656 squalidity1668 squalidness1727 frowziness1729 sordor1823 seediness1832 fluffiness1860 grubbiness1866 crumbiness1949 raunch1952 scruffiness1974 grunginess1978 scuzziness1980 grottiness1984 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vi. 207 What can poverty giue els, but beggery, fulsome nastinesse, squalor,..drudgery, labor, vglinesse. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 327 Without light..each parcell of the worlds fabrick [would] lie buried in black obscuritie, & dismall squalour. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 172 The Vice of this denominated Vertue is Squalor. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 361 The Dirt and Squallor,..his Pastimes and Recreations would be all abominable. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 198 Hovel piled upon hovel,—squalor immortalized in undecaying stone. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures vii These wretched people living in squalor and ignorance and misery. b. figurative. The quality of being morally squalid; the quality or state of being mentally squalid, or of lacking intellectual sensitivity and order. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [noun] uselldomc1175 yomernessc1250 caitifty1340 miseryc1375 deploration1490 caitifdoma1500 villainya1571 deplorableness1649 sorriness1668 squalor1860 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness mirec1400 sordidity1584 dirta1625 dirtiness1649 sordidness1656 sleaziness1727 sordor1823 seediness1852 squalor1860 sleaze1967 1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 184 In creeds never was such levity; witness the..squalor of mesmerism, the deliration of rappings. 1933 E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families v. 88 The whole family is much the same. Lives Dangerously in mental squalor. 1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence vi. 139 This strength and magnificence, so very different from our own weakness and mental squalor. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > aridity or lack of moisture droughta1100 dryness1398 drytha1533 squalora1637 aritude1656 aridness1731 aridity1796 the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness rowa1250 horror1382 roughnessa1398 ruggishness?1541 unsmoothness1598 scabredity1624 squalora1637 scabrosity1657 scabridity1870 scragginess1885 a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1805 in Wks. (1640) III Let them..no lesse take heed, that their new flowers, and sweetnesse doe not as much corrupt, as the others drinesse, and squallor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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