Crossword-Solution: SQUALOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Squalor | n. | Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “SQUALOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| An awful state to live in | 1 answer |
| Poor conditions | 1 answer |
| Wretched condition | 1 answer |
| State of misery and filth | 1 answer |
| Slumlike condition | 1 answer |
| Skid row condition | 1 answer |
| Filthy condition | 1 answer |
| Filth and misery | 1 answer |
| Decrepit state | 1 answer |
| DIRTY LIVING CONDITIONS | 1 answer |
| Condition on Tobacco Road | 1 answer |
| uncleanliness | 2 answers |
| Miserable state | 2 answers |
| Back Street | 26 answers |
| filthiness | 34 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| barrenness | 42 answers |
| Wretchedness | 42 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| Impurity | 44 answers |
| filth | 56 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| DIRT ___ | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with SQUALOR (5)
The occasional emergence of an Equilateral from the ranks of his serf-born ancestors is welcomed, not only by the poor serfs themselves, as a gleam of light and hope shed upon the monotonous squalor of their existence, but also by the Aristocracy at large; for all the higher classes are well aware that these rare phenomena, while they do little or nothing to vulgarize their own privileges, serve as almost useful barrier against revolution from below.
The older woman carried herself with a regal dignity that seemed quite remarkable in a place of such primitive squalor.
The occasional emergence of an Equilateral from the ranks of his serf-born ancestors is welcomed, not only by the poor serfs themselves, as a gleam of light and hope shed upon the monotonous squalor of their existence, but also by the Aristocracy at large; for all the higher classes are well aware that these rare phenomena, while they do little or nothing to vulgarize their own privileges, serve as a most useful barrier against revolution from below.
One with gold-burnished flakes will shine like fire, For twofold are their kinds, the nobler he, Of peerless front and lit with flashing scales; That other, from neglect and squalor foul, Drags slow a cumbrous belly.
All these symptoms together prevented the natives from caring for their personal lives, and so they lived in deplorable squalor, with their huts falling apart, and their children and themselves half starved and wholly naked.
Quotes with SQUALOR (3)
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well — as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all — while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.
Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, years ago, about being intelligent," she said. The Constable brightened all at once. "Pleased to hear it." The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original Victorians were preceded by the Georgia…
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).