[
UK
/slˈʌmi/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty
slum conditions
a slummy part of town
How To Use slummy In A Sentence
- It looks terribly slummy in this house.
- Kokhi's parents' place is a tiny top-floor walk-up in one of the slummy blocks that line Hebron Road on its way out of town.
- a slummy part of town
- 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
- Slummy mummy thinks it's time for a new flame. Times, Sunday Times
- The words cover a wide range of topics but are often centred on popular culture and include terms from "globesity", to describe the worldwide epidemic that counts John Prescott among its sufferers, to Kerry Katona's apparent portrayal of a "slummy mummy". Undefined
- 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.