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Example sentences for: squalor

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Many of these babies grow up in squalor and themselves become dependent denizens of the welfare culture.
A NYT front-pager reviews the blooming of open "God talk" among presidential hopefuls, seeing in it an efficient way to flash distance from the squalor of the Clinton scandals.
The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.
On the negative side, critics say it "rolls in sleaze and squalor like a mangy dog on steaming roadkill" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). On the positive side, Janet Maslin praises Clark for the way he manages to create "bad times with a wicked way of looking good" (the New York Times ). (This fan site is packed with video stills from the film; find out more about director Larry Clark at alt.culture.)
There is squalor aplenty.