Slum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLUM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to visit squalid urban areas
• put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to
• spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one\'s own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
• experience poorer places or conditions than usual
• spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes
NOUN:
• a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people
• a house or building unfit for human habitation
• squalid overcrowded house or area
• A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
• Same as Slimes.
• a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to visit slums (squalid urban areas)

Words related to SLUM

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How to use SLUM in a sentence

• Next thing we know, she will be wanting to take up slum work.
• But to have understood, she would have had to know how that life began in a city slum.
• Each house in the city is surrounded by a green lawn, a garden and an orchard, so that poverty and squalor of the slum type is practically unknown.
• I had discovered a new slum, a place of precarious, sandy cliffs, deep, sandy cuttings, solitary, ancient houses, and the butt-ends of streets.
• He dealt in pulpit and on platform, with many public questions, such as temperance, capital and labor, civic righteousness, and the purifying of East Side slum life.
• He looked upon our slum neighborhood as a great sociological laboratory, and he had embarked upon an apparently endless orgy of investigation.
• Liquor in large quantities was distributed among the slum classes further to inflame their minds.
• The provincial Press had been much impressed by their vivid picture of slum realities.
• Since he left Cambridge he had been pursuing abstruse chemical research in a laboratory he had in a Westminster slum.
• She had not spoken in the evening before, and in all her sheltered life she had never seen the milling of a night crowd in a slum district.
• And yet soon afterward, I visited a high school in one of the poorest slum districts of a large city.
• Jansenius can bear death and misery with perfect fortitude when it is on a large scale and hidden in a back slum.
• While it is not a city of slums, as some people imagine, it may well be said to be one gigantic slum.
• From the standpoint of simple decency and clean manhood and womanhood, any mean street, of all its mean streets, is a slum.
• The slum is their jungle, and they live and prey in the jungle.
• His adherents had made much of the fact that Enoch was slum bred and self made.
• None came to scatter wide the prison walls of the slum it lived in and give it air.
• If lives were endangered, that was the common chance of a slum.
• With the full breath of the Atlantic blowing upon them, they look as sickly as if they had just come out of a slum in St.
• We saw him in Dublin the other day emerging from his slum den to loot Sackville Street.
• We know where the fellow is to be found down in that slum near the Borough Road.
• She was brought here in a critical state four or five days ago by one of the slum priests who keep us so busy.
• I strode the streets of the slum unseeing, my thoughts running a familiar channel.
• Italy touched them with the lovely hands of La Divina Carlotta, our lady of tears from a slum of Naples.
• It is a slum out of the Rue de Bondy, a double row of houses run up by the speculative builder, under the shadow of the huge mass of the Porte Saint-Martin theatre.
• The crowded tenement, the city slum, an oppressive system of ill-paid labor, these are evils which a gradually developing social conscience must one day eliminate.
• Some may go to the city slum, which in its dire need is of close kin to the foreign-mission land.
• When he regained consciousness he was lying upon the floor of the slum saloon, with his pockets turned inside out and his watch missing, and a dull pain almost bursting his skull.
• I have known them be everywhere, from the Drawing-room to a Guild-meeting in a back slum, and all with equal appetite.
• Rather, we are urged to fix responsibility upon the individual owner who receives rent from slum tenements.

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