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The only landscapes he noticed were window-views of houses and his own squalid gardens, full of buddleia, which he also painted.

In itself, this was a story of two silly people on a squalid little night out in London, and is of no particular interest.

It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palm leaf, winding all over a steep hillside.

His age and a veneer of dignity made of this too recent incidents a pretty squalid minor mistake.

had no place to stay and his wife left him because of the squalid life.

I married him because any other relationship seemed . . . cheap and squalid.

She is of the generation and hauteur that would think all mail order items are a bit squalid.

It is easy to see how crime can breed in such a squalid neighborhood.

At the height of the war, more than a million people were displaced and confined to squalid camps.

Fortunately we can back out of these squalid squad-based rat tunnels and move on to the aptly titled Die Hard Attack.

Seeping through the squalid air of the police station, the sour smell of dirt and disinfectant.

Many residents still have to use often-squalid public toilets and building standards are often poor.

It remains to be seen how they will react to the squalid reality of the trial, especially if Mr Berlusconi appears in person.

The mass of the population in Caracas remain trapped in squalid housing conditions in the ' barrios ' on hill tops overlooking the city.

From the squalid streets of Gaza city to the blood-soaked fields of southern Afghanistan, it is a call the world needs him to heed.

The world is so squalid that no one has qualification to say they are sorrowful.

Set aside for a moment the squalid allegations of bunga-bunga parties.

The regime responded by putting him again in a squalid, solitary confinement cell or among dangerous inmates.

In the middle of the century Saffron Hill was a squalid slum overrun by paupers and thieves.

I'd be first in line to denounce them as squalid influence peddlers, shamelessly meddlesome, shiveringly undemocratic tricksters.

"It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross" (Thomas H. Huxley).

Denied full citizenship at home, many end up in Bangladesh, where some 200, 000 live in squalid border camps.

Its commuter trains are crushed with passengers each morning; its squalid slums hum with industry and ambition.

In April, two British journalists from The Sunday Telegraph were freed after spending 10 days in a squalid Harare jail.

How, then, can important parcels reach their destinations in a squalid megalopolis of the future?

Life imprisonment: The rows of squalid sheds where the tigers live at Guilin 'park'

The airport is particularly dismal: cramped, squalid, with rude staff and far too few flights.

They're involved in a rather squalid battle as to who controls the party . . .

Every culture defines it for itself, choosing what it sees as the perfect point between squalid and over-fastidious.

A degraded and squalid class or state of human existence.

Is misery a matter of living in a squalid hut in a poor country?

Their severity typically reflects the level of development: the more squalid a country, the more virulent the cholera.

Resembling unburned human torsos on a squalid Ganges.

So, new arrivals are forced to live in squalid, makeshift conditions on its periphery.

He toured India's engorged cities and squalid villages.

People do not really live in such squalid conditions.

An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.

Dating sites have for the most part always had either a squalid or a chain-store ambience.

Once a squalid, crowded jail, this officially stopped operating in 1970.

It is free of ulterior motives. There is no squalid power game.

Besides her, more than 2, 100 other political prisoners are held, all in squalid and brutal conditions.

Some workers at the mine live in bleak company housing. Others rent squalid rooms in the town.

It says contagious diseases such as measles can spread like wildfire in the overcrowded, squalid resettlement camps.

Here the squalid tragedy was played out.

How can anyone live in such squalid conditions?

The filthy words turn the campus environment from a peaceful well-educated one into squalid neighborhood of rude residents.

Adel Tarhouni, 36 years old, had spent a week in the base's squalid cell, with 18 other prisoners.

describes squalid conditions in the hotel-brothel where she volunteered