They live amid reek and squalor.
London's very drawbacks — its endless noise and hustle, its smoky air, the squalor ambushed everywhere in it — assured this one immunity.
Just two months into Gates' tenure, The Washington Post revealed that Walter Reed Army Medical Center was keeping wounded soldiers in moldy, mouse - and cockroach-infested squalor.
It may conjure up images of dirt, squalor and plague, but the middle ages also created a society that was, remarkably, anti-capitalist.
When you spend the greater part of your working life amongst squalor and foul language, you tend to become hard - boiled.
Dogs are often bred far too frequently, are kept cramped together in squalor, and are not socialized with humans.