| But I suppose there's no denying that we learn from our mistakes, just as we learn from toothless, disease-ridden drifters. |
| Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation. |
| Parents wanted safe, clean places to raise children rather than disease-ridden industrial cities. |
| He considered himself fortunate that he had not been included in the earlier work parties that were sent up to cut the traces through the disease-ridden jungle. |
| The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate. |
| A man covered with suppurating sores, emaciated and disease-ridden, was groaning as he picked yellow scabs from his body. |
