slummy
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He, now a history teacher and “an intellectual fairly well known in the city,” lives in the hills overlooking his slummy origins.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2020
Whether in London, a slummy neighbourhood of Tunis, or in whole Syrian cities, what stood out was the deep need to be included.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2019
For just 25 cents, anyone could go watch him work at the 5th Street Gym, an airless, low-ceilinged hotbox up a wood staircase in a slummy part of Miami Beach.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2016
It’s also a stone’s throw from the creative hub of the city — the once slummy, now hip Shoreditch.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011
He had a girl here, on one of these slummy streets.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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