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Definition of Slummier
1. slummy [adj] - See also: slummy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slummier
Literary usage of Slummier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1903)
"On the one side, the slums and warehouses of Upper Thames Street; on the other,
the yet slummier purlieus of busy, ..."
2. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1907)
"On the one side, the slums and warehouses of Upper Thames Street; on the other,
the yet slummier purlieus of busy, often- burned-down Tooley Street. ..."
3. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1904)
"... it as " both impracticable and useless in England," and " probably disastrous
in its results." "Local option would make our slums still slummier. ..."
4. The Case for Municipal Drink Trade by Edward Reynolds Pease (1904)
"Local Option would make our slums still slummier ; would drive the criminal
classes into the already crowded courts and lanes of the licensing areas. ..."
5. The Case for Municipal Drink Trade by Edward Reynolds Pease (1904)
"Local Option would make our slums still slummier; would drive the criminal classes
into the already crowded courts and lanes of the licensing areas. ..."
6. Seven Years' Hard by Richard William Free (1905)
"Needless to say, in a year or two the district is slummier than ever; but the
house- jobber has made his pile, and is living in Chester Square. ..."
7. Heterodox London, Or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis: Or, Phases by Charles Maurice Davies (1874)
"Out of Goldsmith's Eow, which is shimmy, just past the almshouses, turns a court
which is slummier still; and Perseverance Hall is ..."
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