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hovel

[huhv-uhl, hov-] / ˈhʌv əl, ˈhɒv- /


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Even the day scenes feel tinged by darkness — especially when Shula visits her dead uncle’s home to find a neglected hovel of forgotten children likely to be abandoned by her judgmental aunties.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Eventually they squeezed into a hovel before being discovered by a turncoat cabinet member.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

But now it is 2023 and we are at Pace, the blue-chip gallery in West Chelsea, where this claustrophobic junkyard hovel contrasts sharply with the pristine white walls surrounding it.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

"I was left in this crowded backstreet hovel in Halifax, while my sister went off to a rather grand life."

From BBC • May 14, 2022

I will not have you return to a hovel.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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