Squalor

Definition: Squalor

Squalor

Noun

1. Sordid dirtiness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squalor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Etymology: Squalor \Squa"lor\, noun. [Latin expression, from squalere to be foul or filthy.]. (references)

Synonyms: Squalor

Ugliness

Noun: ugliness; Adjective: deformity, inelegance; acomia; disfigurement; (blemish); want of symmetry, inconcinnity; distortion; squalor; (uncleanness).

Uncleanness

Slovenry; slovenliness; Adjective: squalor.

Crosswords: Squalor

Latin (foulness).

Squalor Motel (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Fever, Squalor and Vice: Sanitation and Social Policy in Victorian Sydney (reference)

• Haiti: The Politics of Squalor, (reference)

• Modern Plantation Agriculture: Corporate Wealth and Labour Squalor (reference)

• Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City (Vintage Departures) (reference)

• Squalor and Splendor: Expat Tales of East and West (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• With Love & Squalor [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Worker Rights

Brazil

Frequent accidents, unhealthy working conditions, and squalor are common. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, want), pisllëk (dirt, filth, muck, smut), mjerim (adversity, destitution, grief, hardship, misery, misfortune, pauperism, penury, woe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فساد سياسي, ‏قذارة (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, impurity, infection, uncleanliness, uncleanness), ‏رجس (atrocity, be dirty, dirt, filth), ‏ظروف سيئة, ‏بؤس (misery, penury, poverty, unhappiness, wretchedness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

низост (abjection, baseness, dirtiness, infamy, iniquity, manginess, meanness, turpitude, villainy, yellowness), мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, ordure), мизерия (dunghill, gutter, misery, necessity, poverty). (various references)

Chinese 

暴风. (various references)

Czech

bída (beggary, deprivation, destitution, misery, poverty, want), špína (dirt, filth, filthiness, grime, impurity, soil). (various references)

Farsi 

کثافت کاری , ژولیدگی (Plica), الودگی (Alloy, Impurity, Pollution, Stain, Sully), درهم وبرهمی وکثافت . (various references)

French

saleté, misère noire, corruption, conditions sordides. (various references)

German

Schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, smut, sordidness), Elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness). (various references)

Greek 

κακομοιριά (misery, poverty), ρυπαρότησ (filthiness, grubbiness, sloppiness, smudginess, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness), ρυπαρότητα (dinginess, dirtiness, filthiness, griminess, grubbiness, manginess, nastiness, sloppiness, smudginess, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness), βρωμιά (dirt, foulness, squalidity, squalidness), αθλιότητα. μιζέρια, αθλιότητα (abjection, beggarliness, degradation, misery, nastiness, scrubbiness, seediness, shabbiness, sordidness, trashiness, wretchedness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסכ� ות (beggary, indigence, poverty, wretchedness), לכלוך (dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, filth, nastiness, soiling, sordidness, stain), זו�"מ�" (filth, foulness, impurity, scum). (various references)

Hungarian

szenny (dirt, filth, grime, muck, scuz, scuzz), mocsok (Colly, creep, defilement, grime, muck, ordure, scuz, scuzz, sleaze, sleazebag, smirch, sodding), nyomor (destitution, extremity, misery, necessity, penury, poverty, privation, want). (various references)

Italian

squallore (bleakness, misery, wretchedness), sordidezza (meanness, sordidness). (various references)

Manx

sallaghys (impurity), broighid (dirtiness, pollutedness). (various references)

Pig Latin

alorsquay.(various references)

Portuguese

sordidez (dirt, dirtiness, piggery, pigpen), porcaria (dirt, dirtiness, filth, grubbiness, mess, mire, muck, mud, slovenliness, sludge, trash), miséria (affliction, distress, misery, penurity, penury, poverty, privation, sorriness, want), imundície (carrion, dirt, dirtiness, feculence, filth, foulness, muck, ordure, sludge, slush, soil), esqualidez. (various references)

Romanian

mizerie (atrocity, beggary, depth, distress, indigence, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalidity, troubles, want). (various references)

Russian 

грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squelch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljavština (dirt, dirtiness, filth, grime, impurity, muck), jad (chagrin, grief, sorrow, woe), beda (calamity, destitution, grief, misery, pauperism). (various references)

Spanish

mugre (dirt, dirtiness, grease, grime), miseria (beggary, destitution, distress, indignity, misery, peanuts, penury, pittance, powerty, privation, want, wretchedness). (various references)

Swedish

snusk (filth, squalidity, squalidness), smuts (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, muck, night-soil, ordure). (various references)

Thai

ความสกปรก (dirtiness). (various references)

Turkish

sefalet (beggary, calamity, dog's life, misery, poverty, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness, wretchedness), pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, uncleanliness), bakımsızlık (neglect, squalidity, squalidness). (various references)

Ukrainian

убозтво (beggary), бруд (dirt, feculence, filth, foul, foulness, grime, mullock). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự dơ dáy (dinginess, mussiness, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness), sự bẩn thỉu sự nghèo khổ (squalidity, squalidness). (various references)

squalore. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squalor": squalors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squalor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquaglo, Qualao, Qualo, Sequijor, Shuvalov, sqaulo, sqaulor, sqealer, squale, squaler, squallor, squao, squeler. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: lours, orals, solar, sural.

-3 letters: also, lars, lour, oars, oral, osar, ours, saul, slur, soar, sola, sora, soul, sour, sura, ursa.

-4 letters: als, ars, lar, las, oar, ora, ors, our, qua, ras, sal, sau, sol, sou, suq.

-5 letters: al, ar, as, la, lo, or, os, so, us.

+1 letter: rorquals, squalors.

+4 letters: liquidators, quadrupoles, quarrelsome, quatrefoils, roquelaures.

+5 letters: lacquerworks, maquiladoras, pasqueflower, quadrillions.