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Example sentences for: squalid

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No, what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after week: fleeting, age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system; Trent Lott; Newt Gingrich.
As we watch, we can never be sure whether the characters are hearing the same music we are, and as the music seeps into the lives of Stanley, Stella, and Blanche, it does what jazz and the movies have always done best: It makes the squalid glamorous.
Newsweek 's literary metaphor: the prez as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ricocheting between "solid and squalid, supersmart and superdumb."
Nonetheless, he plunges relentlessly ahead as he details his deep involvement in the development of the story of Monicagate and the agonizingly slow revelation of the squalid behavior of President Clinton.
She was a former waitress and prostitute who had lived in squalid poverty with a ne'er-do-well husband and three kids.