squalidity

Subhash K. Jha of the Indo-Asian News Service expressed such a sentiment when he wrote that Boyle is selling “squalor packaged as savvy slick entertainment” and that the film “wants to exploit the Mumbai slums as a hotbed of tantalizing images conveying the splendour of squalidity.”

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Subservience to the bidding of the wily _Datto_, poverty, squalidity, and tribal warfare for bravado or interest seem as natural to the Moro as the sight of the rising sun.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

He remembers vividly how at first his gorge rose, and recalls how gradually there crept over him a forgetfulness of the squalidity and discomfort.

The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

He remembers vividly how at first his gorge rose, and recalls how gradually there crept over him a forgetfulness of the squalidity and discomfort.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

He remembers vividly how at first his gorge rose, and recalls how gradually there crept over him a forgetfulness of the squalidity and discomfort.

The Crisis — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909

Chinese pralaya, after the Mongol Conquest, took a very long time to sink into squalidity.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

Every square foot of it is cultivated; nowhere the squalidity one sees among the farm-houses of this country.

The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901

Brute violence, however, can hardly be said to be the worst characteristic of the slave-driving Democrat; his ignorance and squalidity are proverbial; his senseless enthusiasm is disgusting.

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

The alphabet which writes the name of Thersites, blackguard, squalidity, refuses her letters for him.

Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841

"Everywhere," said the _Quarterly Review_, "throughout all parts, even in the best towns, and in Dublin itself, you will meet men and boys -- not dressed, not covered -- but hung round with a collection of rags of unrivalled variety, squalidity, and filth -- walking dunghills.

The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836