[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

squalid \squal"id\ skwo^l"i^d, a. l. squalidus, fr.
   squalere to be foul or filthy.
   dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
   1913 webster

         uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire. --dryden.
   1913 webster

         those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large
         capitals.                                --macaulay.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

squalid
     adj 1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
            life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos";
            "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- seattle
            weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under
            his very nostrils"- james joyce; "the squalid
            atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" syn: seamy, seedy,
             sleazy, sordid
     2: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge
        of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest
        part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid
        shantytowns" syn: flyblown, sordid
see also:
seamy seedy sleazy sordid flyblown 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

146 moby thesaurus words for "squalid":
   abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
   beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, black,
   blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down, brutal, careless, cheesy,
   chintzy, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable,
   depraved, despicable, detestable, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty,
   disgusting, disheveled, disreputable, drabbletailed, draggled,
   draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid,
   filthy, flagrant, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, grave,
   grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid,
   ignoble, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, lamentable, little,
   loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean,
   measly, messy, miserable, monstrous, mussy, nasty, nefarious,
   negligent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
   outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged,
   raggedy, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive,
   rotten, ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock,
   scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby,
   shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod,
   sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, soily, sordid,
   tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, ugly, unclean, uncleanly,
   unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vile,
   villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

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