Definition of Squalors

1. Noun. (plural of squalor) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Squalors

1. squalor [n] - See also: squalor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squalors

squallers
squallier
squalliest
squalliness
squalling
squallish
squalls
squally
squalodon
squalodons
squalodont
squalodonts
squaloid
squaloids
squalor
squalors
squama
squama frontalis
squama occipitalis
squama temporalis
squamaceous
squamae
squamate
squamates
squamation
squamations
squamatization
squamduck
squame

Literary usage of Squalors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Meliora (1868)
"Squalors' MARKET. Exactly opposite each other stand a church and a gin-palace. The former is dedicated to St. Luke, the latter to his head merely, ..."

2. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"... walked up and down over a floor littered with rotten cabbage-leaves, and amid all the usual squalors of decayed vegetable matter and unsaleable refuse. ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... squalors confectum liberal ? quid ego fed ? Sfc. absit a me hujusmodi Deus. Another of his acquaintance broke out into like atheistical blasphemies, ..."

4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1913)
"must face the squalors, the miseries. If he cannot find poetry in a presentment of the cruel, dizzying reality of a sailor's night on ..."

5. The Bookman (1906)
"Luxury and all the refinements that great wealth could give were seen on every side, as were also, at the other extreme, the squalors and the suffering of ..."

6. The Bookman (1910)
"But it takes a very young and buoyant and disinterested and energetic person to wrest enjoyment out of the actual hardships and squalors of picaresque ..."

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