Squalid - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 20/04/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Squalid.

5 letter answer(s) to squalid

DIRTY
  1. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"
  2. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
  3. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
  4. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
  5. expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
  6. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
  7. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
  8. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his
MANGY
  1. having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat"
RATTY
  1. dirty and infested with rats
  2. of or characteristic of rats
  3. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
SEAMY
  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"
  2. showing a seam
SEEDY
  1. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
  2. 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"
  3. shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
  4. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

6 letter answer(s) to squalid

GRUBBY
  1. infested with grubs
  2. small sculpin of the coast of New England
  3. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
SLEAZY
  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"
  2. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"
  3. of very poor quality; flimsy
SORDID
  1. Dirty
  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"
  3. meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
  4. 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"
  5. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

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Bad-tempered
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Bad-tempered blackleg, extremely testy
Base
Base, initially seeming old, rather, was suitable
Brits regularly seen in amateur work with sexual content
Coarse
Corrupt police officer oddly ratty
Corrupt, immoral
Cross off the sauce, eating fish? On the contrary
Despicable type almost finished
Dilapidated
Dirty
Dirty - unethical
Dirty recording that you must listen to!
Dirty, grimy
Dirty, squalid
Disgusting
Dishonest to free up openings for this year
Dishonorable
Disreputable
Disreputable motor yacht on the water
Disreputable son lacking energy to swallow drug
Dog-eared
Down at the heels
Easily annoyed a couple of times aboard railway
Epithet for Harry Callaha
Far from posh
Far from spiffy
Filthy
Free up time, having yen to get X-rated
Graham's character showing signs of wear and tear
Grimy
Grubby, like a pomegranate ...
Hardly wholesome
Hint: about 12 short
I say, look at me - so disreputable
Ill-gotten
Ill-tempered piper helped solve such a problem?
Impatient tourist on vacation tucking into fish
Improper 'share' on Twitter about homework
In sorry shape
Irascible and tense, repeatedly caught in beam
Irascible character in children’s book
Irascible tyrant going wild, eliminating unspecified number
Irritable
Irritable spoilt child's head clipped with sides of tray
Irritable, getting dry in a little sun
Kind of pool
Like a fig
Like a fleabag
Like a pomegranate
Like rye, usually
Like some buns quietly excluded from fast
Low-rent, maybe
Lowdown

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