Perhaps, if she were unobserved, she would be able to steal it and give her squalid life a bit of beauty.

Bear in mind, these workers were taken from primitive worlds where they lived squalid lives, dying of diseases and malnourishment.

Considering the squalid lives of slaves in the unkempt pens behind the villa, what did she have to complain about?

His lurid stories of squalid life spurred the government into clearing the slums and building low-cost housing in their place.

It was, she says, "an evening of respect in my otherwise squalid life."

Leading squalid little lives, of no importance to anyone, even themselves.

"My wish is to tell her about our squalid lives in these shacks," Mrs. Mange said.

His lurid stories of squalid life in the slums had a wholly beneficial effect on the capital.

Why do you think I endured years of squalid life in this putrid swamp?

Jack knows instinctively that he is meant for something better than the squalid life into which his mother's failings have plunged him.