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单词 squalor
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squalorn.

Brit. /ˈskwɒlə/, U.S. /ˈskwɔlər/, /ˈskwɑlər/
Forms: Also 1600s squalour, 1600s–1700s squallor.
Etymology: < Latin squālor, < squālēre to be dry, rough, dirty, etc. So Italian squallore, Old French squalleur.
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.
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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.
2. Aridity or roughness. Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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