squalid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

   [...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.

2. 2
   adj

   Showing or characterized by a contemptible lack of moral standards.

   A squalid attempt to buy votes.

3. 3
   noun

   Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.

   Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods[…].

4. 4
   adj

   foul and run-down and repulsive

Etymology tree Latin squālus Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin squālor Latin squāleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin squāliduslbor. English squalid Learned borrowing from Latin squālidus, from squālēre (“to be rough or dirty”).

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