slumminess

slumminess
slummˈiness noun
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Main Entry:slum

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  • slummy — slumminess, n. /slum ee/, adj., slummier, slummiest. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a slum: a slummy part of town. [1855 60; SLUM + Y1] * * * …   Universalium

  • squalor — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, awfulness, baseness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, blowziness, brutality, carelessness, chintziness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crumminess, debasement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • slum — noun a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people. ↘a house in such an area. verb (slums, slumming, slummed) (often slum it) informal voluntarily spend time in uncomfortable conditions or at a lower social level than one s… …   English new terms dictionary

  • squalor — n misery, miserableness, poverty, wretchedness, squalidness, squalidity; sordidness, abjectness, abjection, slumminess, starkness; filth, dirt, foulness, vileness, fulsomeness, feculence, scumminess, muckiness, sliminess, smuttiness, grunginess,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • slum — n. & v. n. 1 an overcrowded and squalid back street, district, etc., usu. in a city and inhabited by very poor people. 2 a house or building unfit for human habitation. v.intr. (slummed, slumming) 1 live in slumlike conditions. 2 go about the… …   Useful english dictionary

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