| 单词 | squalid |
| 释义 | squalid I. squal·id 1. a. < exchanged … squalid and savage dress for a suit of Dutch cloth — Francis Parkman > < ramshackle frame houses … notorious firetraps of squalid appearance — American Guide Series: New York City > < ministering every year to … the poorest, the sickest, the squalidest human beings — Saturday Review > < rickety tables … surmounted by … squalid overflowing ashtrays — John Wain > < rueful squalid poverty that crawled by every wayside — John Morley > b. < life at a fashionably squalid preparatory school — New Yorker > 2. obsolete a. b. 3. a. < a sublime prophet … or a squalid quack — La Selle Gilman > < a series of rather squalid little affairs that everybody knew about and nobody mentioned — Ngaio Marsh > b. < finds Voltaire's summary of ancient philosophy squalid — J.H.Seyppel > < such imagination as he can detect is usually commonplace or squalid — Bernard De Voto > 4. < his complexion sallow and squalid — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > Synonyms: see dirty II. squa·lid III. squalid |
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