Squalidness

And I've carried swag for months out back in Australia -- and it was life, in spite of its "squalidness" and meanness and wretchedness and hardship, and in spite of the fact that the world would have regarded us as "tramps" -- and a free life amongst _men_ from all the world! ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)

It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding: I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened, and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around, and saw the barred windows, and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory, and I groaned bitterly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This gets the spotlight off the confirmed squalidness of the case. 911 calls report racist epithets being screamed by men in the party house. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding; I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around and saw the barred windows and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory and I groaned bitterly. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Vane was so overwhelmed by the prospect of a possible tragedy that he scarcely noticed the dirt, the squalidness, the hot and foetid air and the evil-looking fellows who stared at them when he and Jarvis entered. ❋ Charles Edward Pearce (N/A)

It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. ❋ Frank Dilnot (N/A)

Certainly there are fleas and there are filthinesses in some directions; and yet it is amazing, especially for one accustomed to the Irish, to see an extreme of poverty so much greater, with such an utter absence of squalidness. ❋ Various (N/A)

How the night closed, I know not; but I found myself at last in a narrow room, surrounded with squalidness, its only light from a high-barred window, and its only furniture the wooden tressel on which I lay, fierce, weary, and feverish, as if I lay on the rack. ❋ Various (N/A)