squalor


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Synonyms for squalor

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Synonyms for squalor

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Synonyms for squalor

sordid dirtiness

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AN elderly woman died in squalor a day after police decided she was okay - by looking through a window.
And the actor admitted being shocked by the squalor in the den - not far from the show's studios.
The most resourceful leave all possessions behind to live in the squalor and relative security of European camps rife with ethnic, religious and racial tensions.
A 19-STONE teenager died in "utter squalor", an inquest heard yesterday.
Steve Myers; A CASE OF LOVE AND SQUALOR; Pen-L Publishing (Fiction: Mystery) 14.97 ISBN: 9781940222585
Sydney : At least 15 people, reportedly backpackers from Japan and South Korea "living in squalor" in minibuses, a shipping container and a caravan, had to be rescued from a raging Sydney fire Wednesday.
31 ( ANI ): Qatar has been reportedly accused of working 1,200 people to death after it was revealed that these migrant workers are forced to live in squalor, as the nation spends 39 billion-pound on its building bonanza for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
While most of the population live in squalor on Earth, the wealthy inhabit a high-tech space station called Elysium.
It is theft, as surely as reaching into someone's pocket and taking their wallet is theft" - Author Philip Pullman on the "moral squalor" of illegally downloading material.
Mental health and housing professionals from Australia and Britain assemble the evidence base on severe domestic squalor and make it available to lay readers, researchers, and social care practitioners faced with a human conundrum based on squalor.
Labour set up the welfare system in 1948 after the Beveridge Report, which said we needed to eradicate the five "Giant Evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
A COUPLE who kept their baby son in filth and squalor before his death from a rare disease were given probation yesterday for neglect.
Although it never quite matches the fizzing vibrancy of the New York group's breakthrough With Love and Squalor, this set exudes some of that energy and exuberance.