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wickedfleasqualor
1. a. The state or condition of being physically squalid; a combination of misery and dirt.
1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. 207 What can poverty giue els, but beggery, fulsome nastinesse, squalor,..drudgery, labor, vglinesse? 1635 SWAN Spec. M. vii. ยง3 (1643) 320 Without light..each parcel of the worlds fabrick [would] lie buried in..dismall squalour. 1650 BULWER Anthropomet. 172 The Vice of this denominated Vertue is Squalor. 1714 MANDEVILLE Fable Bees (1733) I. 361 The dirt and squallor,..his pastimes and recreations would be all abominable. 1858 HAWTHORNE Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 198 Hovel piled upon hovel,squalor immortalized in undecaying stone. 1877 BLACK Green Past. vii, These wretched people living in squalor and ignorance and misery.
1. a. The state or condition of being physically squalid; a combination of misery and dirt.
1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. 207 What can poverty giue els, but beggery, fulsome nastinesse, squalor,..drudgery, labor, vglinesse? 1635 SWAN Spec. M. vii. ยง3 (1643) 320 Without light..each parcel of the worlds fabrick [would] lie buried in..dismall squalour. 1650 BULWER Anthropomet. 172 The Vice of this denominated Vertue is Squalor. 1714 MANDEVILLE Fable Bees (1733) I. 361 The dirt and squallor,..his pastimes and recreations would be all abominable. 1858 HAWTHORNE Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 198 Hovel piled upon hovel,squalor immortalized in undecaying stone. 1877 BLACK Green Past. vii, These wretched people living in squalor and ignorance and misery.
