squalidness

  • 31squalid — adjective 1 dirty and unpleasant because of a lack of care or money: How can anyone live in such squalid conditions? | a tiny squalid apartment 2 involving low moral standards or dishonesty; sordid (1): a squalid tale of sex and corruption see… …

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  • 32abjectness — n 1. humbleness, poorness, beggarliness, paltriness, patheticalness, pitifulness, pitiableness; shabbiness, shoddiness, dirtiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scurviness; miserableness, squalidness, starkness, hopelessness, oppressiveness;… …

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  • 33squalor — n misery, miserableness, poverty, wretchedness, squalidness, squalidity; sordidness, abjectness, abjection, slumminess, starkness; filth, dirt, foulness, vileness, fulsomeness, feculence, scumminess, muckiness, sliminess, smuttiness, grunginess,… …

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  • 34squalid — /ˈskwɒləd / (say skwoluhd) adjective 1. foul and repulsive, as from the want of care or cleanliness; dirty; filthy. 2. wretched; miserable; degraded. {Latin squālidus} –squalidly, adverb –squalidity /skwɒˈlɪdəti/ (say skwo liduhtee), squalidness …

  • 35squalid — [skwäl′id, skwôl′id] adj. [L squalidus < squalere, to be foul or filthy] 1. foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions 2. wretched; miserable; sordid squalidity [skwä lid′ə tē, skwôlid′ə tē] n. squalidness… …

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  • 36dirtiness — noun 1. the state of being unsanitary • Syn: ↑uncleanness • Ant: ↑cleanness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unclean (for: ↑uncleanness), ↑dirty …

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  • 37flyblown — adjective 1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies flyblown meat a sack of maggoty apricots • Syn: ↑maggoty • Similar to: ↑stale • Derivationally related forms: ↑maggot …

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  • 38squalid — adj. 1 filthy, repulsively dirty. 2 mean or poor in appearance. 3 wretched, sordid. Derivatives: squalidity n. squalidly adv. squalidness n. Etymology: L squalidus f. squalere be rough or dirty …

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  • 39uncleanness — noun the state of being unsanitary • Syn: ↑dirtiness • Ant: ↑cleanness (for: ↑dirtiness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑unclean, ↑dirty …

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