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单词 squalor
释义 squal·or
\ˈskwälə(r) also -wȯl- or -wāl-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Latin, roughness, dirt, squalor; akin to Latin squalēre to be dirty, squalidus dirty, squalid, squama scale
1. : the quality or state of being physically squalid
 < dwellings … sinking stage by stage from indigence to squalor — Lewis Mumford >
2.
 a. : moral baseness : corruption
  < presenting a picture of political squalor to the country — Russell Baker >
 b. : absence of intellectual sensitivity : crassness
  < depressing squalor of the … mind — Dachine Rainer >
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