| A man covered with suppurating sores, emaciated and disease-ridden, was groaning as he picked yellow scabs from his body. |
| The conditions are deplorable: overcrowded and disease-ridden without adequate access to medical attention, proper nutrition, and clean water. |
| Venice, which begins as a sensory paradise and ends as a disease-ridden abyss. |
| The prison, which consisted of seven underground dungeons and a day-room, was filthy, disease-ridden, and infested with vermin. |
| Foer became politicised, he tells us, by a visit to an industrialised turkey farm, crowded, filthy, disease-ridden. |
| The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate. |
