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English Dictionary: squalor by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squalor
n
  1. sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squalor \Squa"lor\, n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.]
      Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
  
               The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing
               nearly the same aspect of squalor.         --Taylor.
  
               To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
                                                                              --Dickens.
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