Squal'dor, n.

noun

n. [Lat., from squalere, to be foul or filthy; It. squalore.] Foulness; filthiness; squalidity; squalidness. “The heterogeneous multitude, every where wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.” I. Taylor.

Sir Leicester's gallantry concedes the point, though he still feels that to bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes is really — really —. Dickens.