Rotten and Squalid

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Rotten

Rotten adjective - Having undergone organic breakdown.

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Squalid and rotten are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Squalid" instead an adjective "Rotten".

Nearby Words: rottenness, rottenly

Squalid

Squalid adjective - Foul and run-down and repulsive.

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Rotten and squalid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rotten" instead an adjective "Squalid".

Nearby Words: squalor, squalidly

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They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives.

Source: Literature / The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

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