Moe returns to his squalid existence at his bar, but has brightened up enough to pass on committing suicide...at least until the holiday season rolls around.

Experts on the gangs describe the members' lives as a squalid existence in seedy motel rooms and the back seats of cars.

He had not considered life outside of the Synchronized Worlds, always assuming that feral humans endured a squalid, pointless existence out there.

In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith (John Hurt) endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police.

Involved in a Russian art heist, curator Margarita Latunsky lives out a squalid existence as concubine and sleeper agent in the Hermitage Museum.

"Editors become editors in the first place because they can't write," and they fool around "with stories that are written by the people who can write in order to justify their squalid existence."

She had no need of the cenote water, no need to destroy the Misborn and their squalid existence.

It is a squalid, circumscribed existence: she rarely ventures outside her room, rarely speaks to her neighbors.

For the majority of Calimport's multitude, though, there would only be poverty, a day-to-day squalid existence until they landed on the piles of buzzard-pecked bodies in the ditches.

The best thing is to put an end to this squalid existence once and for all.