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slum Noun

— A slum is a neighbourhood where many poorer people live.

slum

— noun a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions — verb spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century

Synonyms slum synonyms

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slum English » English

ghetto shantytown shanty town back street slum area squatter settlement skid row skid road shanty shack rotten place rookery rear tenement quarter part of town new town mean alley inner city informal settlements informal settlement hovel dump district den decayed area crowded city district area in decline alley house

Conjugation slum conjugation

How do you conjugate slum?

slum · verb

Examples slum examples

How do I use slum in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom lives in a slum.
The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.

Movie subtitles

The workingman and the slum child know they can expect my best efforts in their interests.
I had to come all the way out here to meet a tough sergeant named Kelly. who was born in a slum and educated in an army camp. before I was fit for a woman like Valentine.
A slum, he said.
A priest in a slum parish knows all the sadness of the world.
Then there's the slum kid the bookworm the lumberjack.
You know, born in a slum, mother dead since he was nine.
He was born in a slum.
Listen, I. I've lived in a slum all my life.
You all come in here with your hearts bleeding' about slum kids and injustice.
But our area is a slum!
We want none of your slum prudery here, young woman.
The patients are slum people, full of fleas and lice.
Do not give me this conversation this is not a slum!
The board recommends to the city which land should be bought for new housing. hospitals, slum-clearance projects.
It's pretty hard to concentrate on slum clearance and Stanley at the same time.
I've lived in a slum all my life.
I was born in a slum.
A slum!
Slum Conditions in Crawleyville.
The board recommends to the city which land should be bought for new housing, hospitals, slum-clearance projects.
I taught some of your parents - your father, MacDowall - in the old slum schools in the city, before they built this fine estate, and this wonderful school.
First of all you allow this house to deteriorate into a village slum. Then you turn it into a lodging house, and now this: a huckster's enterprise!
I'm afraid it is little better than a floating slum!
There's only one latrine on the older side of the slum.
The distinguished Mrs. Angelina, whom you well know, has just left here a minute ago threatening to incite the slum dwellers to reoccupy the flats!
It is the most beautiful city in the world. Paris is a slum beside it.
It was in Nanterre, in the slum, the first day of Algerian independence.

News and current affairs

The next step is to define measurable targets, such as better lives for slum dwellers or reduced deforestation.
Others have, more predictably, decried the film's searingly authentic depiction of India's poverty and slum life.
Slum life is depicted with integrity and dignity, and with a joie de vivre that transcends its setting.
Slumdog Millionaire was filmed in large part with small hand-held digital cameras on location in Dharavi, Mumbai's (and Asia's) biggest slum, and does not skip the mounds of garbage, cesspits, and overflowing drains.
They also know that the dangers don't stop at the edge of the village or slum; today's hunger hotspots all too frequently become tomorrow's violent hotspots.

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