Subhash K. Jha of the Indo-Asian News Service expressed such a sentiment when he wrote that Boyle is selling “squalor packaged as savvy slick entertainment” and that the film “wants to exploit the Mumbai slums as a hotbed of tantalizing images conveying the splendour of squalidity.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slumdog Millionaire: Focus on the film, not the film���s politics] Reference

Chinese pralaya, after the Mongol Conquest, took a very long time to sink into squalidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

The alphabet which writes the name of Thersites, blackguard, squalidity, refuses her letters for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors] Reference

Every square foot of it is cultivated; nowhere the squalidity one sees among the farm-houses of this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of the Mask] Reference

Who likes squalidity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Younger Set] Reference