What is "squalid"

Usage examples of "squalid".

A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.

French priest whom we took in at one of the squalid villages of the dreary Haut-Valais, through which on that bright afternoon we rattled so superbly.

He expected to find the Hallowells in a tenement in some more or less squalid street overhung with railway smoke and bedaubed with railway grime.

Still these were lucky birds, Eden remembered touring a commercial eggery once as a schoolgirl and shuddered at the memory of all those birds in tiny cages and squalid conditions.

That slave, for all his squalid person and sexual erethism and detestable character, was an experienced traveler, and told us or showed us many things of use or interest.

Mosque that is a ruin inhabited by hawks and the other mosque of the Aissawa, and the three squalid fondaks wherein the Jews live like cattle.

Israel slept that night in one of the three squalid fondaks of Wazzan inhabited by the Jews.

Pedar was addicted to jook, a squalid drug whose effects include inflamed eyes and irritability as well as bleeding gums, pimples, and even hallucinations.

As he buys new white shoes for his last performance in the town, he encounters a former schoolmate from Russia, a bully who once regularly attached himself to Lik and now drags him to his squalid home, plies Lik with wine he should not drink, berates him for the gap between his own misery and the cushy life he thinks Lik leads.

Prefecture of Police, of squalid little offices that stank, of greasy insolent clerks with satinette sleeves, sitting on round leather pads in underclothes that were never changed, a filthy cigarette butt glued to an unshaven lip, exhaling a reek of black broken teeth and stale coffee warmed up with rum.

Those picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague, of squalid penury, sottish profligacy, dull discontent too stale for words.

These superacute feelings seemed to be tearing at his very heartstrings, until he felt that he could no longer lie on the miserable palliasse which in these squalid lodgings did duty for a bed.

The first was a misshapen, squalid man with cruel, cunning eyes and a shock of tangled red hair, bearing in his hands a small unpainted cross, which he held high so that all men might see it.

They took us all over Cambridge, which he knew and loved every inch of, and led us afield through the straggling, unhandsome outskirts, bedrabbled with squalid Irish neighborhoods, and fraying off into marshes and salt meadows.

There, in a squalid doorway apart from the more wholesome foot-traffic, as Millie watched from concealment behind a shuttered kiosk, Kafka approached two gaudy women of obvious ill repute, leaving, after a slight dickering, with both of the overpainted floozies, plainly headed toward the entrance of a nearby fleabag hotel.