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hovel

noun as in tiny unkempt house

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When we first meet Bob, Tomlinson treats us to a description of the hovel in which he lives.

"She works out of a hovel, it is a broken-down building, just a shack," she said.

Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.

For several days previous, I had been actively engaged in building my own little room, and making our hovel comfortable.

Maria and Sebastian were brought up in a hovel with a mud floor, and only one room, shared with the donkey and the goat.

Kent, still unrecognized by Lear, endeavors to persuade him to take refuge in a hovel.

A woman was at the entrance to our hovel, looking down full at us.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hovel, such as: cottage, hut, lean-to, shack, shanty, and burrow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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