squalor

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Recent Examples of squalor And what of the fact that Snow White, abandoned in the woods (where the Huntsman is too kindhearted to carry out the Evil Queen’s order to murder her), comes upon a cottage where seven cute, quarrelsome 249-year-old short men with Amish beards live in bachelor squalor and become her protectors? Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025 They are often banned from visiting temples and forced to live apart from higher-caste communities, often in squalor and farther from access to services. Esha Mitra, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025 The writer-director revisits an idea that worked well in his screenplay for 2002’s Chicago — paralleling squalor and splendor, with central characters stuck in grim reality seeking escape through Golden Age Hollywood musical fantasy. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Bryant was arrested on Friday after sheriff's deputies found three of her children living in squalor in a condominium. Gina Kaufman, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for squalor
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dinge
Noun
  • An earnest, has-a-costume-for-everything kind of guy, Daub is allergic to the greige and the dinge.
    Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Dinges said the two crewmembers whose sleep remained steady -- even in the absence of conventional daylight -- were those who kept to a strict schedule and found other ways to control their biological clocks.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 June 2017

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