squalor
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Squalor in the slum has always outstripped sanitation, while disease—malaria, typhoid, acute diarrhea—abounds.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015
Squalor, who is also frontman for the band Dingus Khan, said he had slight hygiene concerns about performing in the toilet but that the departure from the "usual gig format" would be worth it.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2014
Jesse's relationships with this trio bring to mind two great stories about literature and learning, Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place and JD Salinger's For Esme – with Love and Squalor.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012
Stuck in Squalor The cycle of disaster, death and denouncement repeats with a macabre monotony.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012
For Folly cried, 'I know not, but I believe'; Squalor, 'I am vile, but I hope'; and the oppressed, 'I am despised, but I love.'
From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
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