squalid
Example Sentences
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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
A 2017 study in Maharashtra found them squeezed into squalid shared rooms, with little sanitation, often facing discrimination at work and in clinics.
From BBC
A class-action lawsuit seeks to end Riverside County’s use of a cash bail system to detain people awaiting trial, alleging high death rates and squalid conditions in the county jails.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
