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Definition of slummy in English: slummyadjectiveslummiest, slummier ˈslʌmiˈsləmi Full of slums, or resembling a slum. Example sentencesExamples - What was leisurely at the start of the day, though, would become a slummy, sweaty, altogether unflattering affair in the Sacramento sun.
- Now, I'm going to start you off easy, down the slummy end of Chapel Street where the poor, backpacking, vagrant, and ugly are relegated to.
- ‘I was born in the slummy area around Glasgow,’ recalls McCormack.
- For that, we expect to go to some slummy, run down shack under the bridge and have to endure the shouting, spitting, ignorant crowds of ‘natives’ and potcakes.
- You only need to look at the gap sites on Edinburgh's Princes Street or the slummy conditions on Oxford Street in London to realise that.
- He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
Synonyms seedy, insalubrious, squalid, sleazy, seamy, sordid, dingy, mean, wretched run down, down at heel, shabby, dilapidated, in disrepair, neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, depressed informal crummy, scruffy, scuzzy, grungy British informal grotty North American informal shacky, skanky
Derivativesnoun And hey, if you really crave slumminess, you can still find plenty of decrepitude between the avenues where the gentrification takes longer to get to. Example sentencesExamples - The area had been urban renewed into slumminess and the old buildings were gone but when they existed they apparently did, in fact, front on the alley.
- Like everywhere else this had a certain slumminess but, in a nod to being alternative, there was a sort of faux-hip bars and restaurants vibe going on.
- A prestigious lineage - however distant - can confer some measure of privilege despite the slumminess of more recent ancestors.
- Okay, exactly when did America accept its slumminess and start to revel in it!
RhymesBrummie, chummy, crumby, crummy, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, tummy, yummy Definition of slummy in US English: slummyadjectiveˈsləmēˈsləmi Squalid or unfit for human habitation. a small slummy apartment where three generations of a family crowd together Example sentencesExamples - ‘I was born in the slummy area around Glasgow,’ recalls McCormack.
- You only need to look at the gap sites on Edinburgh's Princes Street or the slummy conditions on Oxford Street in London to realise that.
- What was leisurely at the start of the day, though, would become a slummy, sweaty, altogether unflattering affair in the Sacramento sun.
- He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
- For that, we expect to go to some slummy, run down shack under the bridge and have to endure the shouting, spitting, ignorant crowds of ‘natives’ and potcakes.
- Now, I'm going to start you off easy, down the slummy end of Chapel Street where the poor, backpacking, vagrant, and ugly are relegated to.
Synonyms seedy, insalubrious, squalid, sleazy, seamy, sordid, dingy, mean, wretched
OriginLate 19th century: from slum + -y. |