Sentence examples for squalid affair from inspiring English sources
The rather conservative Victorian clergyman who received the letters must have been a little shocked: there are details of a squalid affair with a serving girl, fruity remarks about foreigners and literary vitriol.
Hailsham insisted that "a great party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar".
"Ethical Journalism" is suffused with a deep suspicion of commerce, depicting journalists as a priestly class that must remain unsullied by the squalid affairs of ordinary men and women.
Even if their work was going well, this was often "entirely surrounded by neuroticism in private life" — squalid love affairs, homosexuality, etc.
Far from being seen as a racist crime that showed up the worst of British life, the official presentation of the case was that of a squalid little local affair, a tale of "two bad apples".
The thought that it is commonplace for women to feel "not safe in taxis" with the male superiors is wholly disturbing: and there is nothing "squalid" or "little", about such a state of affairs.
His apartment was squalid.
Today, Lago Agrio feels squalid.
Then comes the squalid part.
