adjective (disapproving)
1 (of places and living conditions) very dirty and unpleasant:
squalid housing * squalid, overcrowded refugee camps
2 (of situations or activities) involving low moral standards or dishonest behaviour
SYNSORDID:
It was a squalid affair involving prostitutes and drugs.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for squalid is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does squalid appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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