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Example sentences for: squalid

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Fiction has its glories, but concealment is merely squalid.
It is a squalid irrelevance even in the context of "Sensation," but "major" would put her in bed with the leading artists of our time, e.g.
To most Victorian Anglo-Americans the houses of Santa Fe, even the sprawling governor's palace, were at best unrefined and at worst squalid.
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.