Squalor
WordNet
noun
(1) Sordid dirtiness
WiktionaryText
Quotations
- The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. -- Taylor
- To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
- Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.