squalid

• In a sense it was, no doubt, squalid, and yet in another it was perhaps the greatest time in my life, and Gissing knew it. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
• The endangering charges related to what Patrolman Sam Mosca described as the squalid and unsafe conditions he found inside Seabolt'shome. —  Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio
• At a time when even the most prosperous American cities were dirty, squalid, and dangerous, the fair seemed to offer the promise of another kind of urban world entirely. —  The New Yorker
• One week before the invasion, a Chavista columnist named Emilio Silva posted a call to action on Aporrea, a pro-government Web site, describing Jews as "squalid" - a term Chavez often uses to describe his opponents as weak - and exhorting Venezuelans to confront them as anti-government conspirators. —  Breaking News: CBS News
• But their day is fast passing away; and in place of the simple, happy creatures of a few years gone, we find the discontented and besotted idler--squalid and dirty The cant of to-day--that the race problem, if left alone, will settle itself--may have some possible proof in the distant future; but the few who are ignorant enough to-day to believe the "negro question" already settled may find that they are yet but on the threshold of the "irrepressible conflict" between nature and necessity To the natural impressibility of the southron, the Louisianian adds the enthusiasm of the Frenchman. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

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