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Definition of Slummiest
1. slummy [adj] - See also: slummy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slummiest
Literary usage of Slummiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1884)
"The district- visitors who help the kindly host in his good work will scruple
not to penetrate the slummiest of the slums, and will invite to dinner only ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"The fact was that a friend of his in South Halstead Street, the slummiest of
Chicago slums, had offered to turn over to him his practice for the summer, ..."
3. The Continent of Opportunity: The South American Republics--their History by Francis Edward Clark (1907)
"It leads through the oldest, dirtiest, slummiest part of Arequipa. The narrow,
cobble-paved streets are reeking with filth and thick with dust . ..."
4. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1920)
"When you see the little tiny geranium in a tomato can on a window ledge in the
slummiest part of any city, you have hope there. Some one in that household ..."
5. The Battle with the Slum by Jacob August Riis (1902)
"children from the slummiest quarters of that city who had gone through the Golden
Gate Association's kindergartens, just one was found to have got into jail ..."
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