slums in English

noun

1

a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.

However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water.

synonyms: hovel, rathole, ghetto, shantytown, skid row, shacktown

verb

1

spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.

rich tourists slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives

noun

• hovel, rathole, ghetto, shantytown, skid row, shacktown
• slum area

Use "slums" in a sentence

1. A Beggarly existence in the slums.

2. in-situ up gradation of slums;

3. Slums are often causative of crime.

4. Kibera is one of Africa's largest slums.

5. Overcrowded slums are breeding grounds for crime.

6. There are no state schools in slums.

7. 8 Overcrowded slums are breeding grounds for crime.

8. What will happen to homelessness, slums, and bad neighborhoods?

9. Give them the slums, burlesque shows, riveting machines.

10. And Paradise could not include slums or poverty.

11. She declaimed against the high rents in slums.

12. That's one billion people in the world live in slums.

13. These historic buildings have been allowed to degenerate into slums.

14. So did the government's unapologetic and violent demolition of slums.

15. Bring infrastructure to the favelas, to the slums, wherever you are.

16. The movement started with a school for boys in the slums.

17. Slums gradually spread like ringworm over the face of the city.

18. Find me the tallest building in the slums... or directly adjacent.

19. More than half residential levels here are classed as slums.

20. 5 The misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable.

21. The distant workers who supported this wealth lived in noisome slums.

22. Street Arabs are produced by slums and not by original sin.

23. As a social worker, she does a lot of work in slums.

24. That is the reason why heroin run rampant in American crowded slums.

25. This whole area used to be slums when I was a boy.

26. The first thing that we did was walk through the slums.

27. The slums built during the Industrial Revolution soon became unfit for human habitation.

28. 6 These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.

29. Many have to manage with makeshift dwellings in shantytowns and city slums.

30. Her childhood was spent in the squalid slums east of the city.

31. That's why drug dealers, police officers and militians... kill so many in the slums.

32. Slums or poorer residential and industrial quarters have not been extensively excavated in Mesopotamia.

33. We walked through these slums, identified houses where children would never go to school.

34. There were no masses of poor crushed together in fetid slums, scrabbling for every crust.

35. Of, relating to, or befitting a beggar; very poor: a Beggarly existence in the slums

36. The public housing units have frequently become slums and hotbeds of crime, especially juvenile delinquency.

37. Registered slums (Bustees): these slums are recognized by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) on the basis of land title; since 1980, they have been taken over by the CMC for letting/lease to slum dwellers

38. 23 It hasn't escaped my notice that you've gone from five-star hotels to virtual slums.

39. Brasilia would be without the colonial legacy, without baroque and classical architecture, without slums

40. Synonyms for Bustees include slums, ghettos, hovels, favelas, purlieus, rookeries, shanties and skid rows

41. He lived in slums and public hospitals, and spent his days drinking absinthe in Paris cafes.

42. There are no slums, and no discernible wealth, just an equal distribution of what looks like poverty.

43. But land reform could create the jobs which poor people from rural areas seek in city slums.

44. he said the state just sold the majority share of the slums to Esperanto Security Company.

45. 17 In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark contrast to the slums of the city's poor.

46. General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories.

47. You know, by the way, there are two million people in Bangalore, who live in 800 slums.

48. In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark contrast to the slums of the city's poor.

49. They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town.

50. 17 A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.