Meaning of slummy | Babel Free

Definitions

Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.

Equivalents

Examples

“Cars and unemployment increased. Council houses took on a slummier look⟳.”

“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like⟳ all who have⟳ elected to follow⟳, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible call⟳ that comes to those whose ears are open⟳ within as well as without, she has had to make⟳ her way alone, through difficulties not commonly encountered, "through slummy, muddy streets"; she has known the dark night of the soul, Dante's "dark wood, midway in the journey of our life," and the sorrows of the pits of hell[.]”

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