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Definition of Slummy
1. Adjective. (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty. "Slum conditions"
Definition of Slummy
1. Adjective. Like a slum. Run down, dirty, decrepit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slummy
1. resembling a slum [adj -MIER, -MIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slummy
Literary usage of Slummy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York (State). Dept. of Social Welfare, New York (State). Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities (1902)
"When people talk about the slums I always object, because they imply something
slummy about the people, but if you mean by slums the houses of the poor, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"Yet it proved to be a sad, dispiriting place, that somehow suggested Sandwich,
that most forsaken of the Cinque I'orts. A narrow " slummy " street led up to ..."
3. The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert William Service (1907)
"We are fated serfs to freedom—sky and sea; We have failed where slummy cities
overflow; But the stranger ways of earth know our pride and know our worth, ..."
4. The Bookman (1910)
"And yet, strange to say, there were many bohemian resorts on and near the "Coast."
Along its slummy purlieus there were restaurants such as San- ..."
5. The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert William Service (1907)
"We are fated serfs to freedom—sky and sea; We have failed where slummy cities
overflow; But the stranger ways of earth know our pride and know our worth, ..."
6. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1884)
"These alleys are styled rows, rents, build- ngs, courts, squares, and even gardens.
As a matter of fact they are veritable slams, and of slums, slummy; ..."
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