blight

Neighborhoods and commercial areas deprived of pedestrian traffic are more vulnerable to urban blight and street and property crime.

For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.

Was part of the attraction to the project shining a light in this bizarre blight on America?

She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas.

In the process, he captured the true spirit of Detroit and its people, all bankruptcy, crime, and urban blight aside.

Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism.

There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!

The country around Llangollen was beautiful, but the memory of the hotel leaves a blight over all.

Tokyo might fall under the blight of progress, but Kano would hold to the traditions of his race.

Is not one bitter trouble sufficient to blight all of a sudden the most peaceful and happy life?

Out in the vegetable area there were first cutworms and then drought and potato blight to be contended with.