Sentence examples for slightly squalid from inspiring English sources
"Maybe his business model is that you'll only pay 25p for you bag of teabags at the beginning, then they'll bump the price up to 40p, or something slightly squalid like that," he says.
Mr Mojica, who was jailed in 2003 for decapitating a teenage girl who dated a member of the Salvatrucha, was transferred from Zacatecoluca (known as "Zacatraz" for its awful conditions) to a slightly less squalid jail in Cojutepeque, where he meets visitors in brand-new Reeboks and a personalised "18" baseball cap.
I never forgot the image of him when I left his squalid flat – slightly drunk at 11 in the morning, laughing at nothing and no one, deeply nostalgic and horribly and irrevocably maimed by the things war does inside your head.
His extended solos during one or two-chord vamps — particularly on "Close to the Sky," "Waswasa" and "Even if You Knew," in that order of quality — are scrabbling, circular, slightly heroic, pulmonary with wah-wah and squalid with distortion.
When I was at university in Leeds a decade ago, my standard of living was a small step above squalid, so it was nice to be returning to my favourite northern city to languish in slightly more luxurious surroundings.
His apartment was squalid.
Today, Lago Agrio feels squalid.
Then comes the squalid part.
The gym became worryingly squalid.
