squalor

• Blade Runner with its postmodern squalor, the witty, frightening nether world of Beetlejuice, or the moody, stylized atmosphere of Gotham City. —  Omni: January 1994
• The other was the misery, squalor, and chronic discontent of the Catholic population, then almost twice as large as after the famine it became. —  The Life of Froude
• Margo returned the greetings with what she hoped was a properly humble air, but inside she was bubbling Hyde Park was glorious in the early morning sunlight, so glorious she could almost forget the horror of disease, squalor, and violent death such a short distance east. —  Time Scout
• They can forget the squalor, the sickness, the short brutal lives that consume them. —  The Gathering - Arena
• On that day I had my first sight of the poverty which implies squalor, and felt the curious distinction between the ruddy poverty of the country and that which even a small city presents in its shabbiest streets. —  20 Years At Hull House

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