Dictionary entry

Squalor

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Squa″lor (skwā″lôr), n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.] Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. I. Taylor.

To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens.