squalor
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Cavalcanti’s, no less brilliant in its execution, looks through the glass darkly, with painful scenes of long-ago squalor and depravity that sadly echo our own.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
“Maybe I wanted, somehow, to remove myself from that dirt and squalor and aspire to something.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2025
Many of these heroes live in squalor in Los Angeles’s infamous ‘Skid Row.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025
He lived the life of an aristocratic New Yorker in the squalor of Williamsburg.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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