squalidly

"As it is, we are squalidly scrapping over the enforcement of the colonial laws of those empires whose destinies we might possibly have determined a hundred years ago."

THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

If Cleo is desperate, it is because she yearns to escape from a squalidly overcrowded family apartment and achieve true love.

Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington 2011

Then, all of a sudden, like an actualization from every Jewish boy's summer camp wet dream, a Jewess with a guitar pick as sharp as her tongue graphically and squalidly entices the Jewish boys who were thisclose to resigning themselves to settling down with one of us.

Doree Lewak: My Jewish Achilles Whore 2008

Cambaceres, where life was so large, where minds could expand, where the splendor of the Imperial Court was so vividly reflected, and to be dropped suddenly into a sphere of squalidly narrow ideas — was it not like a leap from Italy into

A Second Home 2007

Cambaceres, where life was so large, where minds could expand, where the splendor of the Imperial Court was so vividly reflected, and to be dropped suddenly into a sphere of squalidly narrow ideas — was it not like a leap from Italy into

A Second Home 2007

So, equally often, I am glad we live where we do, midway, roughly speaking, between the two i.e. not squalidly and not too stricken by her conscience.

Excerpt: It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick 2005

“But you — Amidst this beauty — You are not this ill-conditioned, squalidly bred lad of whom I have been reading?”

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Dulled, all its soul-shaking beauty dead, blotched and shadowed squalidly, its gleaming plumes tarnished, its dancing spirals stripped from it, that which had been the Shining One wrapped itself about Yolara — wrapped and drew her into itself; writhed, swayed, and hurled itself over the edge of the bridge — down, down into the green fires of the unfathomable abyss — with its priestess still enfolded in its coils!

The Moon Pool 2004

We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drunk.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

I feel my youth and my summer streaming squalidly past me like the ghetto viewed from a Greyhound window.

kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2002