squalor

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

squalor
    n 1: sordid dirtiness [syn: {sordidness}, {squalor},
         {squalidness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Squalor \Squa"lor\ (skw[=a]"l[^o]r), n. [L., fr. squalere to be
   foul or filthy.]
   Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
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         The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere
         wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. --I. Taylor.
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         To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
                                                  --Dickens.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "squalor":
      abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, awfulness, baseness,
      beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, blowziness, brutality,
      carelessness, chintziness, contemptibility, contemptibleness,
      crumminess, debasement, degradation, depravity, despicableness,
      detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dowdiness, dreadfulness,
      egregiousness, enormity, execrableness, filth, foulness,
      frowziness, frumpishness, fulsomeness, grossness, grubbiness,
      hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, infamousness, littleness,
      loathsomeness, looseness, lousiness, lowness, meanness, messiness,
      miserableness, monstrousness, nastiness, nefariousness, negligence,
      noisomeness, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness,
      offensiveness, outrageousness, paltriness, pettiness, pokiness,
      poorness, rankness, repulsiveness, rottenness, scabbiness,
      scandalousness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness,
      seediness, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, slatternliness,
      slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenry, slumminess,
      sluttishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness,
      tackiness, tawdriness, terribleness, the pits, uncleanness,
      unneatness, untidiness, vileness, worthlessness, wretchedness

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