The family was living in squalor. I was shocked by the squalor of their surroundings.
Recent Examples on the WebAs Frank's desire to wallow in the debauchery and squalor of his youth finds a home in new roommate Charlie, the show also benefits from having Frank around to bankroll the untold schemes and scams to come. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022 Daniel Zolghadri plays a middle-class New Jersey teen who drops out of school and lives in squalor in order to find his identity as a cartoonist. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022 She was horrified by her years encountering women living in squalor and giving birth to as many as 15 children, often endangering their own lives. Cathleen Miller, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate SAN ANTONIO — A couple is facing child endangerment charges after their four children — as young as 2 and as old as 13 — were found living in squalor Monday afternoon on the Northeast Side. Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2022 De León objected, saying that the small structures were a huge step up for people who had been living in squalor on the streets. James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 In Central Falls, the family lived in squalor at 128 Washington St., and Viola enrolled in kindergarten at Broadstreet School. Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022 The inhabitants live in squalor, moral as well as physical.The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 Along the way, his visits to the bursting-at-the-seams refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and the mounting squalor in Bangladesh (the site of his first reportage back in 1971) reveal additional humanitarian crises. Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022 See More
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SQUALOR | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤public, urban公共場所的/城市的污穢VERB + SQUALOR➤live in生活在骯髒的環境中PREPOSITION➤amid the squalor of, in the squalor of在骯髒中◇a beautiful park amid the squalor of the slums位於骯髒的貧民窟中的美麗公園➤in squalor在骯髒之處◇He was born in squalor next to the docks.他出生在碼頭附近的骯髒之處。