Word: squalidity
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...Aristocracy. Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot. (Dr. Faure's daughters regarded the village as "une saleté dégoûtante," a blot on creation...
There was another side of the picture. Cheery Margaret Toner, wife of a laborer, looked around her squalid 200-year-old cottage and said: "Wot, this hole? They could pull it down tonight for all I care...
India's festering sun beat down impartially on New and Old Delhi-on the precisely geometric, grandly drab preserves of the British Raj, on the noisy, squalid, sprawling native town. A sweat-soaked British wallah might change his shirt four times before settling down to an evening burra peg of bad Australian whiskey in the garden of the Cecil Hotel. Even the calloused, naked feet of shirtless Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind...
Arlen, who is now writing his third play, The Humble Peacock, views with alarm "the squalid enthusiasm with which countless men, women and children of America and England insist on writing novels, plays and stories...
...must make a Catholic of Charles," said Lady Marchmain in a matter-of-fact way. Ryder thought it was all the most shocking hypocrisy-especially when his drunken friend Sebastian fled desperately to North Africa and took up with the most squalid society he could find...