Definitions
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- adjective Like a
slum . Run down, dirty, decrepit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty
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Examples
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According to Elizabeth, not only is this man a gun-toting rabid Rethuglican, but he is a terrible neighbour who keeps his place looking like a dogs breakfast: Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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There's nothing in the picture that lets you know if it's "slummy" or not ... all it shows is that she takes care of it.
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Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
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Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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Mine is located in Jaffa (Yafo), once (meaning before 1948) “The Bride of the Sea”, now a slummy southern Tel Aviv suburb.
Global Voices in English » Israel: “Ajami” Reveals Nuanced Look at Israeli Society 2009
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I continued gazing at myself in the mirror, and reached up to touch my ticket out of this slummy apartment and less-than-admirable life, when to my horror, the horn fell off and rattled around the porcelain basin of the bathroom sink.
Horny Erin Zulkoski 2011
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The story revolves around Dahlia (Connelly), who rents a somewhat slummy apartment after winning custody of her young daughter in a bitter divorce.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The story revolves around Dahlia (Connelly), who rents a somewhat slummy apartment after winning custody of her young daughter in a bitter divorce.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The story revolves around Dahlia (Connelly), who rents a somewhat slummy apartment after winning custody of her young daughter in a bitter divorce.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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We might as well just drive to some slummy motel right now.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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