squalid
Example Sentences
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Soutine settled into a squalid artists’ colony in Montparnasse as one among many Jewish immigrants living there.
Not even your passport or your birth certificate will save you if he carries through on that squalid Thanksgiving message.
From Los Angeles Times
Lawyers say instead it has become a “black site,” holding immigrants for days or weeks in squalid and unsanitary conditions without access to legal counsel.
An August 2024 report by the prison's independent monitoring board found inmate numbers in the "cramped, squalid" prison, had grown to 1,513.
From BBC
Before it was removed, residents say the squalid encampment had developed into a community.
From Los Angeles Times
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