squalor

Preposition: of

• slum: Every time we lift one child above the squalor of the slums?
• place: She's shocked by the sheer squalor of the place.
• infection: In the squalor of the intensive chicken house infections spread like wildfire.

Converse of subject

surround: What's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?

Converse of object

• see: We spoke to them and saw the squalor and the problems that they faced.
• like: Am a tidy freak by nature, hate mess and she seems to like squalor.
• bring: Drug problems bring untold squalor and misery to countless homes.

Adjective modifier

• urban: In this way, what could be urban squalor is rendered almost regal, certainly distinguished.
• public: Nick Cohen: Well, we already have our private affluence and public squalor.
• utter: The throb of the head together with the utter squalor of the cave.
• moral: Their lives are often made worse by the moral squalor resulting from the collapse of stable family life.
• general: The general squalor which I was apt to cultivate was also a symbol of revolt against Henry's standards.
• such: He worried about the materialistic nature of nineteenth-century civilization and the way in which it could create such squalor.

Noun used with modifier

city: When we lived in inner city squalor we hung it from the lounge window ( 4th floor ) during Euro 2004.