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Definition of squalid in English: squalidadjective ˈskwɒlɪdˈskwɑləd 1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect. (尤指地方因贫穷或遭忽略而)肮脏的,令人讨厌的 the squalid, overcrowded prison 那个肮脏、拥挤的监狱。 Example sentencesExamples - Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city.
- This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
- The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
- People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
- His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes.
- For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
- Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions.
- It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion.
- As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals.
- He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month.
- Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
- They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
- There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
- The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps.
- Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
- And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry.
- Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
- Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety.
- Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, broken-down, run down, down at heel, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown, gone to rack and ruin, crumbling, decaying informal scruffy, scuzzy, crummy, shambly, grungy, ratty, tacky British informal grotty North American informal shacky - 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards.
卑鄙的,恶劣的,道德败坏的 a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment 一个想使他们摆脱选举困窘的卑劣企图。 Example sentencesExamples - His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
- Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
- Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most.
- The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals.
Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting informal sleazoid
Derivativesadverb Just because no one perceived irregularities in his work before his conviction does not mean that the books are not squalidly consistent with his crimes.
noun -ˈlɪdɪti noun
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere 'be rough or dirty'. Definition of squalid in US English: squalidadjectiveˈskwälədˈskwɑləd 1(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect. (尤指地方因贫穷或遭忽略而)肮脏的,令人讨厌的 the squalid, overcrowded prison 那个肮脏、拥挤的监狱。 Example sentencesExamples - His room was squalid and packed with dirty clothes.
- He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month.
- They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation.
- People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
- There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be.
- Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
- For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps.
- It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion.
- The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city.
- Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent.
- Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions.
- Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
- As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals.
- The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
- The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps.
- Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
- Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety.
- This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
- And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, slummy, slum-like, foul, vile, low, poor, sorry, wretched, dismal, dingy, miserable, mean, nasty, seedy, shabby, sordid, sleazy, insalubrious, slovenly, repulsive, disgusting - 1.1 Showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards.
卑鄙的,恶劣的,道德败坏的 a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment 一个想使他们摆脱选举困窘的卑劣企图。 Example sentencesExamples - The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals.
- Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
- Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most.
- His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
Synonyms improper, sordid, unseemly, unsavoury, sleazy, seedy, seamy, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap, base, low, low-minded, nasty, debased, degenerate, depraved, corrupt, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, contemptible, ignominious, ignoble, shameful, wretched, abhorrent, odious, abominable, disgusting
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere ‘be rough or dirty’. |