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[syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squalor \Squa"lor\ (skw[=a]"l[^o]r), n. [L., fr. squalere to be
foul or filthy.]
Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
[1913 Webster]
The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere
wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
--Dickens.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squalor
n 1: sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor,
squalidness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "squalor":
abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, awfulness, baseness,
beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, blowziness, brutality,
carelessness, chintziness, contemptibility, contemptibleness,
crumminess, debasement, degradation, depravity, despicableness,
detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dowdiness, dreadfulness,
egregiousness, enormity, execrableness, filth, foulness,
frowziness, frumpishness, fulsomeness, grossness, grubbiness,
hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, infamousness, littleness,
loathsomeness, looseness, lousiness, lowness, meanness, messiness,
miserableness, monstrousness, nastiness, nefariousness, negligence,
noisomeness, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness,
offensiveness, outrageousness, paltriness, pettiness, pokiness,
poorness, rankness, repulsiveness, rottenness, scabbiness,
scandalousness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness,
seediness, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, slatternliness,
slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenry, slumminess,
sluttishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness,
tackiness, tawdriness, terribleness, the pits, uncleanness,
unneatness, untidiness, vileness, worthlessness, wretchedness