slum

slum housing; slum districts.

The slums are a reproach to London.

a slummy part of town; slum conditions.

The President's visit to the slums was a mere pose.

a beautiful garden amid the squalor of the slums

businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats.

slum clearance accelerated during the 1960s.

the city is now part slum, part consumer paradise.

What a wretched existence these people lead in the slums!

Many coloured people live in the slum near the Main Street.

black-and-white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with colour images.

The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.

Muhammad Babul Hossain, one of the slum's three compost collectors, didn't have a job before the barrel program began, but now he's one of the slum's high-income earners at 4,000 taka ($58) per month.