[syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squalid \Squal"id\ (skw[o^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. squalidus, fr.
squalere to be foul or filthy.]
Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
[1913 Webster]
Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large
capitals. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squalid
adj 1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos";
"sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle
Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his
very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy,
sordid, squalid]
2: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge
of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest
part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid
shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "squalid":
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, black,
blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down, brutal, careless, cheesy,
chintzy, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable,
depraved, despicable, detestable, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty,
disgusting, disheveled, disreputable, drabbletailed, draggled,
draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid,
filthy, flagrant, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, grave,
grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid,
ignoble, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, lamentable, little,
loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean,
measly, messy, miserable, monstrous, mussy, nasty, nefarious,
negligent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged,
raggedy, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive,
rotten, ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock,
scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby,
shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod,
sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, soily, sordid,
tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, ugly, unclean, uncleanly,
unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vile,
villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched