Sentence examples for squalidness from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being squalid
Yet local and national inquiries, official and unofficial, into the incidence of poverty had pointed to the need for public action to relieve distress, and from the start the budget of 1909, fashioned by Lloyd George, as chancellor of the Exchequer, set out deliberately to raise money to "wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness".
The shock of these scenarios has faded in the course of nearly thirty years (the cover image, in the age of American Apparel, seems sweetly decorous), and what stands out now is not so much the squalidness of the sex as Gaitskill's wisdom about what often gets in the way of sex — the tendency of the soul to interrupt the body's urges with its own demands for recognition.
The shock of these scenarios has faded in the course of nearly thirty years (the cover image, in the age of American Apparel, seems sweetly decorous), and what stands out now is not so much the squalidness of the sex as Gaitskill's wisdom about what often gets in the way of sex the tendency of the soul to interrupt the body's urges with its own demands for recognition.
