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squalidly
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈskwɒl.ɪd.li/ us /ˈskwɑː.lɪd.li/
in a way that is extremely dirty and unpleasant:
The mother and son were left living squalidly in the big city.
in a way that is morally wrong and unpleasant:
Why were the shareholders treated so squalidly?
His leadership was squalidly oppressive.
They lived squalidly in crowded tenement blocks.
We hear about them going round getting squalidly drunk and swearing horribly.
Two million soldiers died squalidly in the mud of northern France.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom
manky
messily
messy
slovenly
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed
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