slummy


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(of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty

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In Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People, Israel Zangwill's 1892 novel of Jewish life in late Victorian London, an urchin who trudges through slummy East End streets in the first chapter grows up to write her own fictional ethnography of London Jewry.
The 36-year-old actress has revealed how she ditches glamour away from the cameras in favour of a "slummy mummy" look.
whose heart leaves leak their poison inside this slummy garage
Mothers are labelled, "slummy mummies" for wearing such attire.
(48) Indeed, there are Mumsnet threads asking how to become a yummy mummy and less 'slummy'--a telling word in itself.
"Two operatives of an outlawed outfit were killed in a shootout with the law enforcement agents in the seedy parts of Manghopir, a slummy neighbourhood of Gadap Town," police said.
Byline: - the slummy plugging of moulded before although thought massive Jane Costello
Negro life to the level of the subhuman in the very process of pleading the Negro's humanity." At worst you risk seeming to be out for a slummy contact high--perhaps especially if you're a white outsider.
University environments are often very slummy and people don't pay enough attention to creating an inspirational environment in which people will really knock themselves out.
The last time he did this I was 19 years old, tuning in to a borrowed black and white television in the slightly slummy student house I shared.
Over a decade later, Macmillan is dead, Brown is in prison, and a man has been found murdered in the slummy Red Road apartments--with Brown's fingerprints everywhere.
It's my personal thing because when I see them on other people they're so chic and I think they look really effortless but not on me, I look very slummy!"
WOULD you know whether you've got pockets full of slummy, are feeling maungy or just a bit droothy?
This conspicuous sense of insecurity triggered their migration to various parts of country and consequently thousands of displaced Kashmiri Pandits were left with no other option than to find shelter in refugee camps where they are living still in slummy situations.