Definition of squalid in English:

squalid

adjective ˈskwɒlɪdˈskwɑləd

1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.
the squalid, overcrowded prison
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city.
- This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
- The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
- People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
- His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes.
- For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
- Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions.
- It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion.
- As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals.
- He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month.
- Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
- They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
- There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
- The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps.
- Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
- And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry.
- Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
- Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety.
- Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent.
Synonyms
dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting
neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, broken-down, run down, down at heel, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown, gone to rack and ruin, crumbling, decaying
informal scruffy, scuzzy, crummy, shambly, grungy, ratty, tacky
British informal grotty
North American informal shacky
1. 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards.
  a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment
  Example sentencesExamples
  His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
  Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
  Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most.
  The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals.
  Synonyms
  improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting
  informal sleazoid

Derivatives

squalidly

adverb

Just because no one perceived irregularities in his work before his conviction does not mean that the books are not squalidly consistent with his crimes.

squalidity

noun -ˈlɪdɪti

squalidness

noun

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere 'be rough or dirty'.

Rhymes

solid, stolid

Definition of squalid in US English:

squalid

adjectiveˈskwälədˈskwɑləd

1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.
the squalid, overcrowded prison
Example sentencesExamples
- His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes.
- He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month.
- They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
- People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
- There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
- Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
- For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
- It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion.
- The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city.
- Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent.
- Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions.
- Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
- As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals.
- The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
- The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps.
- Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
- Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety.
- This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
- And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry.
Synonyms
dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting
1. 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards.
  a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment
  Example sentencesExamples
  The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals.
  Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
  Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most.
  His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
  Synonyms
  improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere ‘be rough or dirty’.

单词	squalid
释义	Definition of squalid in English: squalid adjective ˈskwɒlɪdˈskwɑləd 1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect. the squalid, overcrowded prison Example sentencesExamples Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city. This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs. The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past. People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns. His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes. For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps. Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions. It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion. As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals. He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month. Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers. They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation. There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be. The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps. Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions. And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry. Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise. Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety. Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent. Synonyms dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, broken-down, run down, down at heel, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown, gone to rack and ruin, crumbling, decaying informal scruffy, scuzzy, crummy, shambly, grungy, ratty, tacky British informal grotty North American informal shacky 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards. a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment Example sentencesExamples His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy. Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself. Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most. The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals. Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting informal sleazoid Derivatives squalidly adverb Just because no one perceived irregularities in his work before his conviction does not mean that the books are not squalidly consistent with his crimes. squalidity noun -ˈlɪdɪti squalidness noun Origin Late 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere 'be rough or dirty'. Rhymes solid, stolid Definition of squalid in US English: squalid adjectiveˈskwälədˈskwɑləd 1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect. the squalid, overcrowded prison Example sentencesExamples His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes. He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month. They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation. People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns. There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be. Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions. For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps. It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion. The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city. Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent. Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions. Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers. As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals. The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past. The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps. Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise. Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety. This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs. And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry. Synonyms dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards. a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment Example sentencesExamples The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals. Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself. Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most. His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy. Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting Origin Late 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere ‘be rough or dirty’.
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