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Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
Latin squālor from squālēre to be filthy squalid
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the Latin squalor.
From Wiktionary
He was delighted with the varied play of the waterfalls, but no glamour blinded him to the squalor of Swiss peasant life.
Throughout the city there is a marked absence of poverty and squalor.
She 's shocked by the sheer squalor of the place.
But they are not to do with the existing degree of private affluence and public squalor.
What's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?