[f. SQUALID a. + -NESS.] = SQUALIDITY.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Squalidness, Foulness, Nastiness, Slovenliness.
1751. F. Coventry, Hist. Pompey, II. x. 219. The cunning little Animal … made his Escape from this Scene of Misery, Squallidness, and Poetry.
1812. Shelley, in Hogg, Life (1858), II. 101. A spectacle of squalidness and misery.
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit., xii. (1853), 226. The poor should have some place free from … the squalidness of home.
1877. Plumptre, Trag. Sophocles, 106. And this his garb, whose time-worn squalidness Matches the time-worn face.
