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squalor

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"Transmission" By Hari Kunzru. "The Shoreditch street onto which the Tomorrow* building faced was of Dickensian narrowness and squalor (127)."

 

Explanation

condition of being in misery; An adjective used to describe a noun that is in filthy or wretched quality. Many people who live in poverty are described as squalors because of their lack to money to clean their homes.

 

Outside Resources

http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4208612.stm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/04/MN238318.DTL

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