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A small poorly constructed house.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
  • Our hovel is down a leafy and muddy lane, several hundred yards from the next house.
  • On the whole I'd say my hovel is no filthier than any other person of the bookseller persuasion.
  • All nature takes pity upon this degraded and charming thing that you call a hovel, and welcomes it.
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