Squalor is an English word with synonyms like dirtiness or uncleanness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Squalor in a sentence
Squalor meaning
Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
Synonyms of Squalor
Using Squalor
- The main meaning on this page is: Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
- Useful related words include: sordidness, squalidness, dirtiness, uncleanness.
- In the example corpus, squalor often appears in combinations such as: in squalor, squalor and, and squalor.
Context around Squalor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Squalor
- In this selection, "squalor" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, moral, tory, relative, yet, based and gap stand out and add context to how "squalor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and public squalor and back into squalor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "squalor" sits close to words such as abrasion, abscess and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with squalor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The bus is a self-guided tour of squalor and inequity. (11 words)
We live in a country of increasing private wealth and public squalor. (12 words)
And, after 13 years, what we have got is Tory squalor in the public services. (15 words)
Like her predecessor, she worked her way up the hard way, leaving school at 16 having grown up in the squalor of a rundown council estate in Stockport, and cutting her teeth as a trade union official before embarking on a career in parliament. (44 words)
Run by the Brzezinski family from Poland, it targeted the homeless, alcoholics and ex-prisoners in Poland with offers of work in Britain, then kept them here in unspeakable squalor, stole their wages and controlled them with threats of violence. (40 words)
She grew up in the UK with a Hungarian dad and a Japanese mom who soon divorced with her mom becoming an actress and moving to Hollywood, while her dad remained a freelance writer living in relative squalor. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The whole point of living in squalor is to better yourself and Move out of that squalor.
And, after 13 years, what we have got is Tory squalor in the public services.
In the early 1900s this yard, Drew’s Court behind No. 119 Corve Street, now the site of Tesco, was typical of the squalor and overcrowding of many of Corve Street’s dwellings.
Obasanjo's vengeful attitude towards President Buhari is the height of selfishness and little short of moral squalor.
Set in an alternate timeline, a middle-aged Bruce Wayne feels compelled to don the cape and cowl again after seeing Gotham City fall back into squalor.
She grew up in the UK with a Hungarian dad and a Japanese mom who soon divorced with her mom becoming an actress and moving to Hollywood, while her dad remained a freelance writer living in relative squalor.
We live in a country of increasing private wealth and public squalor.
Judith Zbiegniewicz lived in squalor, yet every month, her legally appointed guardian was paid $450 from her bank account.
Just ask Khaled Mashal, a wealthy senior Hamas official who lives a life of while the Gazans whom he purports to represent live in squalor and often serve as human shields.
Like her predecessor, she worked her way up the hard way, leaving school at 16 having grown up in the squalor of a rundown council estate in Stockport, and cutting her teeth as a trade union official before embarking on a career in parliament.
Piketty proposed a global wealth tax to avert a return to Jane Austen-like distinctions of privilege and squalor, based more on inheritance than so-called merit.
The bus is a self-guided tour of squalor and inequity.
Even many former Trump voters are appalled by Trump’s racism, as well as his overall moral squalor.
It’s all about controlling us and ushering in their new and glorious Utopia where everyone (except them) is equal and lives in squalor.
That extended the poverty and squalor gap, societally and infected a “meetooism” throughout from post-CPP into the first Republic.
Fans have released thousands of custom Doom levels since 1993, ranging from unlicensed Batman adaptations to The Adventures of Square, which swaps Doom’s squalor for eye-popping rainbow hues.
I felt how suffocating such confines would have been, could experience the smells, sights, and sounds of living in squalor with 78,000 others.
Run by the Brzezinski family from Poland, it targeted the homeless, alcoholics and ex-prisoners in Poland with offers of work in Britain, then kept them here in unspeakable squalor, stole their wages and controlled them with threats of violence.
Afterward, Andrew flew to the Philippines and tracked down his father—where he found the person he once believed to be a mythic figure living in squalor.
A nation where the giant evils of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease should be tackled by collective effort.
Common combinations with squalor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in squalor 11×
- squalor and 5×
- and squalor 5×
- the squalor 4×
- squalor in 3×
- of squalor 3×
- moral squalor 2×
- squalor at 2×
- squalor to 2×