Read full poem →Night-walkers pass along the sidewalks.
The city is squalid and sinister,
With the silver-barred street in the midst,
Dictionary Entry
Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. squalidpoverty squalidconditions squalidlittle squalidmisery squalidsurroundings squalid
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Poetry examples for “squalid”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →So banish from true wisdom to prefer
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more?
Read full poem →The gipsy knocks his hands and tucks them up,
And seeks his squalid camp, half hid in snow,
Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind,
Read full poem →’Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead
Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,
And the pale weaver, through his windows seen
Read full poem →'Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead
Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,° °2
And the pale weaver, through his windows seen
Read full poem →Regardless of the tears and unavailing pray’rs!
Perhaps this hour, in Misery’s squalid nest,
She strains your infant to her joyless breast,
Read full poem →Regardless of the tears, and unavailing pray’rs!
Perhaps this hour, in mis’ry’s squalid nest,
She strains your infant to her joyless breast,
Read full poem →Regardless of the tears and unavailing prayers!
Perhaps this hour, in misery's squalid nest,
She strains your infant to her joyless breast,
Read full poem →Last night in drizzling dusk along a lane,
I passed a squalid farm; from byre and midden
Came the rank smell that brought me once again