squalid

Modifies a noun

• surroundings: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank, rises majestically from its squalid surroundings where Atlantic Avenue meets Flatbush Avenue.
• camp: Yet the squalid refugee camps are filled with people who are all too aware of the bitter reality.
• condition: The squalid, run-down conditions at Glasgow Zoo did not happen over night.
• apartment: He died of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire in his tiny, squalid one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
• street: The applause of society is but faintly audible in the slums of Whitechapel or in the squalid streets of Southwark.
• flat: Instead the four women were held in a squalid flat in Lamia by a criminal gang waiting for them to give birth.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: However, until 1970 a group of rather squalid houses stood here.
• often: Often squalid and slackly administered with lavish dietaries Kent's mixed workhouses did little to reduce the rates.
• not: Anyway, picture a small room, roughly decorated in white, not squalid, but certainly not luxurious, .
• somewhat: However the latest work, in what was the arena of the amphitheater, has also revealed that a somewhat squalid late Saxon settlement.
• so: No little woman is so trifling and sordid, no handmaid so squalid, but that she gained some advantage from his death.
• very: You can sleep here but its very squalid and usually wet.

Used with adjective complement

become: Two days later this pleasant site was cursed, as usual, with the " Reverse Midas Touch " and digging became somewhat squalid.