Squalid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in squalid (adilqsu).
1585-95; Latin squālidus dirty, equivalent to squāl(ēre) to be dirty, encrusted + -idus -id4
It was a squalid hovel, and reeked of the earth out of which it was dug.
I couldn't afford to die like a rat in a squalid hole like that.
So Mandela was painfully slow in denouncing the squalid dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.
Much of the communities swallowed by the expansion of the city and the construction of the Bois de Boulogne are squalid.
His actions were cruel and vicious—and also squalid and contemptible.
But the message belies the squalid reality of Sri Lanka under his rule.
Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
Most of it is turgid, lumpy, fuzzy in texture, squalid in intellect.
Staying hidden in that squalid room had made him wretched and homesick.
Thousands lost their homes and were resettled in squalid temporary camps.