Sentence examples for standard for squalid from inspiring English sources

Another, local gang definitely sets a standard for squalid thuggery.

His terrible death was a rebuke to the quest for squalid political capital and a demand for reflection on the best of America.

Lots of backpackers report having to pay extortionately high rent for squalid rooms packed with bunk beds.

We're talking cardboard-for-walls, tarps-for-a-roof, and road-kill-for-dinner squalid.

Mr. Duvalier, who fled the country in 1986, should also answer for his squalid legacy of disappearance, torture and murder.

But in the end they settled for a squalid little deal stitched up behind closed doors.

There are signs that the disdain of Silicon Valley for the squalid world of politics is starting to dissipate.

The parlors that opened to great fanfare in the early 1970s had quickly became a synonym for cramped, squalid storefronts with rude employees and zombielike patrons squandering Social Security checks.

We laugh at lads in the Middle Ages for being squalid enough to get Black Plague, but look at us.

Today it is depressing, even by the standards of Russian industry: squalid, cramped, old-fashioned and dangerous and appallingly managed".We are not businessmen: we are honest people, producers," explains the general manager, Anatoly Fedyushin.

This sounds a bit squalid for one of the most human rights abusing regimes on earth.